I’ll choose a future full of color and hope and love and living, because the loss and fear and dying is guaranteed, and none of us make it out without a bent tag here or some matted fur there. If we want a kaleidoscope story instead of the black and gray resentment for the things we gave up and never got back, we have to reject the greater stories that argue Safety over Everything. We have to reject the story that following the rules is the only way to get out unscathed.
