Without being push to the wall, we will have remained in our comfortable zone. But this circumstance challenges us to find the courage to move on.
I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself โ my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders.
Try again; you have millions of alternatives. Fill yourself with the bullets of hope and you will kill failure with one shot.
May you find the strength of will and the grace of endurance to overcome every challenge.
Many were the steps taken in doubt, that saw their shapeless ends in no time. Those who travail in faith today will truimph in joy tomorrow. Let faith lead the way.
All your failures and hopes, your suffering and striving, are inconsequential, compared with this. They are nothing. You are nothing. It was a relief to be nothing; it felt deep and beautiful and true.