Lately at work, people have been calling anything that branches off from the main objective a "side quest." It comes from video games. You're supposed to be saving the world, but somehow you end up helping someone find a lost key, delivering a package across town, or collecting ingredients for a potion before you can get back to what you were originally doing. The more I heard people say it, the more I realized life works the same way.

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