I should have told you from the start. I will let you down.

Being a star requires risk-taking shoes.

Total commitment. You know, the idea of discovering something that, for all intents and purposes, goes against your abilities, and yet still deciding to do it anyway. That takes guts, you know?

It was great. Freedom even the imagined kind always is.

The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more. you're all good.

And that was it. All this buildup to a great leap, and I didn't fall or fly. Instead I found myself back on the edge of the cliff, blinking, wondering if I'd ever jumped at all. It's not supposed to be like this.

But as i lay there, it only seemes like silence filling my ears. And the thing was, it was so freaking loud.