The world waits for you with all its beauty, but also its frights and its pain.
The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always.
I have lived this life, and no matter what others may decide about it, I must claim each decision as mine. I have caused harm, failed in the expectations and obligations of love. I have loved well. What I do each day is carried within me until I die.