Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.

I had made it somewhere special, and I'd gotten there all on my own. Nobody had given it to me. Nobody had told me to do it. I'd climbed and climbed and climbed, and this was my reward. To watch over the world, and to be alone with myself. That, I found, was what I needed.

This is what my voice sounds like I don't need to be talking to someone else To hear it

And I, who have never thought in terms of a life, think to myself that I could make a life out of this.

simon: that's disgusting! me: what's disgusting? simon: you know. you put your thing in the place where he, um, defecates.

I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.

Neophyte, n. There are millions upon millions of people who have been through this before-- why is it that no one can give my good advice?