Don't aim for perfect. Aim for complete. Perfection is an unattainable illusion.

The well-being of a neuron depends on its ability to communicate with other neurons. Studies have shown that electrical and chemical stimulation from both a neuron's inputs and its targets support vital cellular processes. Neurons unable to connect effectively with other neurons atrophy. Useless, an abandoned neuron will die.

But will I always love her? Does my love for her reside in my head or my heart? The scientist in her believed that emotion resulted from complex limbic brain circuitry that was for her, at this very moment, trapped in the trenches of a battle in which there would be no survivors. The mother in her believed that the love she hadd for her daughter was safe from the mayhem in her mind, because it lived in her heart.

Everything she did and love, everything she was, required language.

Don't aim for perfect. Aim for complete. Perfection is an unattainable illusion.

At some point, there would simply be no point.

I smile, loving him for changing with me, for going where my Neglect has taken us, for getting the new me.