HOW DO I LIVE BY THAT STORY? WHAT IS ITS 'MORAL' FOR ME?

Well, I've been digging around the roots of one of my old novels, many years in the making ( I am now an old woman and it hasn't even been published (the treasure!) yet); I am totally plugged into it, the way the young man must have been, eagerly, to find the treasure. I now see surveying my land that the work on it, that has given me such passionate involvement, that has kept boredom at bay, allowed me to look at my life in a new sort of way, is the treasure. How often, no, always, the doing itself is the reward.