The world waits for you with all its beauty, but also its frights and its pain.
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.
The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always.