See my silhouette in the firelight...

I realised that while it is futile to fight change, I surely have a say in how it takes hold, how it influences my everyday, how I move forward. I need not fear my urges - for that only fuels their toxic expression. I can love and be loved, and makes mistakes, many of them, all at once. I've already proved to myself that I can reach transcendence, all I need now is the courage to accept my demons, and the patience for them to subside.

A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to put it back into the sky. And it's the most painful thing you'll ever have to do and that you've ever done, and it shall fill you with a void of sadness. But what I've learned is that the best cure for being sad, is to learn something, anything at all. That's the only remedy that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting.