Senior Moments: Finding a metaphor for living a life of action

I’ve always thought of myself as being an adjective or sometimes an adverb. But last week that changed. 
Sitting in my aisle seat at the A Noise Within Theatre in Pasadena, I heard something that would affect my entire future. The words were spoken by the high-spirited young woman who George Bernard Shaw wrote into the character of Hypatia Tarleton in his play “Misalliance.” 
Lamenting the boredom of her privileged life, she declares with great vigor, “I want to