To outlive usually means to last longer. Innocent means something else: “not living more years, but deeper moments.” The measure of a life isn’t its length but its depth — “seizing the moment and appreciating my freedom to live.”

He gets there through an unsettling comparison. Someone with little, living on the street, can out-live the clever and comfortable — because they don’t live to please anyone, and they love the day they’re in. “Intelligence can make one stupid to the simple things in life.”

The freedom he means is small and ordinary. Wearing his hair long because he likes it, and not giving a second to what anyone thinks. Deeper moments aren’t grand highs; they’re plain time, lived the way you actually want it. Keep your eye on the big picture, he says, and don’t get lost painting the fine details of the wrong one.