You're not getting this back you know. Consider it an asshole tax.
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
My stories tend to bring people from isolation into community - with at least one other person, usually with a whole community of people - so that they find themselves accepted back by a world that they kind of fled from.
The weather today is an increasing trend towards denial.
Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.
After you hear even the shortest great story, it should fill you with a little bit of fear.