A Thought

“My lifetime achievement in my opinion is really the slow acquisition of the ability to be vulnerable and needy, and to be able to accept love as well as give.”

William Shatner,
TV and movie actor
on accepting a Lifetime Achievement Award
at the Banff World Television Festival,
June 2010.

Shatner went on to add:

“My lifetime achievement is being married to ...[my wife, Elizabeth], and every day reminding myself that sustaining a marriage is in itself the achievement of a lifetime.

This was part of a larger journey he had:

“My life was a series of pools of loneliness [from] which every so often I was able to emerge with some companionship, and subdue that dreadful feeling that had dogged me for much of my life,” he said. “And frequently even with the kudos I was receiving, I was not happy with the private part of my existence. But slowly I changed. The drill that life puts you through can make you or break you, and fortunately I became more comfortable with relationships and slowly evolved in reaching out to friends and family.”

From The Globe and Mail