Everything we think we know is really only perceived by our senses,' he explains patiently. 'The sounds we hear are just waves in the air; colors are electromagnetic radiation; your sense of taste comes from molecules that match a specific area on your tongue. Hey, if our eyes could access the infrared part of the light spectrum, the sky would be green and trees would be red. Some animals see in completely different ways, so who knows what colors look like to them. Nothing is really how we perceive it.

Sometimes the best things look the strangest.

You never know, life is short but it’s wide

I've learned that everyone can do their part to repair the world

When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.

and as streams of light fan out behind the darkened sun like the wings of a butterfly, i realize that i never saw true beauty until now.

I'm going to be so normal that when people look up normal in the dictionary, my name will be there.