Perhaps most profoundly, in a town, every citizen recognizes that they are creating something that will endure long after they leave, striving for something far greater than themselves.
What we do with the inevitable residual longing — write books, join bands, play sports, have affairs, divorce, build, leave, strive, die — is our story.
If we're left with striving to be vapid reality television stars, we're almost guaranteed to lose ourselves and our sense of security in the process.
None more so than Walker — the player who thought of Keller as a father and who, after failing to fulfill his basketball potential, is simply abandoned by the coach and left to strive for his increasingly unobtainable hoop dreams on his own.
It leaves a hole that most of us will strive to fill.
But once the hope for eventual stability is taken out of this formula, which is the reality for more and more Americans, all that's left is the striving.
Nor is it to eliminate federal standardization of curriculums or objective evaluation of schools — all things Race to the Top and No Child Left Behind strive to do.
"Hitler is dead, Stalin is dead; there can't be that many countries left that strive for this vision of grandeur," he wrote.
Armed with a hand-held camera and idyllic childhood memories, Ms. Guzmán Urzúa, a Chilean-born filmmaker who arrived in Cuba in 1973 at the age of 2 and left in 1990, strives to align her rosy recollections with the deprivation and decay of modern Havana.
This approach strengthens the comparison between different methods as it eliminates any sampling variability leaving all methods striving for exactly the same results, whilst allowing variability to exist between simulated datasets and amounts of missingness.
