A Reflection on Unstructured Learning

     The theme of the passage is that starting something is difficult.  You will often make excuses in order to prolong the process.  As with the narrator, he wants to fight crime and be a "costumed adventurer" but he convinces himself that he needs a costume first in order to be a vigilante.  He can't make his costume yet because he needs a name first.  Something as simple as a name made him wait to fight crime in the night.  He already admits to having self-doubt about the idea so he figures that if everything is perfect, he has his name and his costume, then he can finally be ready to do something he wants to do.  You shouldn't procrastinate and wait, instead seize the day, carpe diem.  YOLO!