Everything is like yesterday...

As the year starts collapsing into the next, his desire to see it through with grace and dignity becomes increasingly difficult. Life keeps testing him, and friends that are supposed to lift him up, stir boiling anger within. "I will not succumb to my lesser instincts" he whispers to himself. "I will not lower myself to your level - there is too much at stake." He takes a few more moments to centre himself and gather what is left of his resolve to quench his burning pride. He tries to remind himself of all the good that once existed - of our happiness and joy and pain endured, but it is next to impossible, when the person standing beside him is someone he can no longer recognise. Someone who let their pain rule their life, and is as hell bent on passing it along, as he is to stop you.