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This month I've been… EVERY DAY WE start something big: there are 22,000 breaths to be drawn in the next 24 hours to begin with, 115,000 beats of the heart; then there's the 1.6 million miles we'll ride through space aboard our speedy blue marble. But bigger than all these things is the rest of our life. And a surprising amount of whatever has steered, channelled or limited us to where we are now needn't remain in charge. It's a banality to say life goes by whether you use it or not, but on the other hand it's the most urgent and electrifying fact we ought to acknowledge. Because momentum will steer the rest of your life just as cruise control will quite happily drive you into a wall. You don't…