Strange how when you're young you have no memories...Then one day you wake up and BOOM, memories overpower all else in your life, forever making the present moment seem sad and unable to compete with a glorious past that now has a life of its own.

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.

She went crazy with a calm face, justifiably so.

It's just amazing how hard it is for people to change, even when amazing things happen. It almost reinforces who you are instead of making you change.

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.

I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.

Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective.