Sometimes what looks like a dead end is just a bend in the road. The thing is you need to follow it along without knowing if you really want to see where it goes. And no one would blame you for stopping or turning back or trying to find an easier path. Know there is nothing wrong with that. In fact, to move anywhere with certainty can look a bit like insanity and just being alive in this world requires a kind of bravery.

And younger me tells older me: I'm sorry.
And older me tells younger me: Try not to worry.
And much older me says: I'll be here when you get here we have all the time in the world. There is no need to hurry.

And tomorrow we celebrate your birthday. And this fall we mark our fifth wedding anniversary. And if the world doesn't come to an end, I'll spend this Christmas with the family, once again. And if the world has always been coming to an endas my beautiful and intelligent wife contendsthere's no reason not to go all in. And whether this is the beginning of the end or somewhere in the middle or the end of the end, I say: you're right. I'm all in.