No one around to judge...

I don't think everything is going to be okay. I think the future promises lots of obstacles, struggle and disappointment. I think the true tests of faith, humanity and humility still lie before me. A vast ocean of lessons, waves crashing at my surface, forever swaying me to drown in the watery abyss. For the truth is, what we do matters. What we do day after day, year upon year, it matters. Life's successes come as we just do the things that seem to make no difference in the act of doing them and we do them over and over and over until the compound effect kicks in. There's a sort of poetry in that, as well as knowing that no matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.