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A total stranger had given me solace through the power of words, helped me escape the troubles of my world if just for enough time to get a much-needed breath, and even—through several quietly uplifting messages threaded throughout his fast-paced novels—showed me what it was like to pursue my dreams. Try new adventures. Dare.
To pen novels—to play any role in bringing fiction to life, for that matter—is to wield a superpower.
Between the noise, the swirling kaleidoscopic lights on the dance floor the past three hours, and the calluses currently forming on my inner thighs from their consistent rubbing beneath my jeans, I would gladly dive into one of those sensory deprivation tanks over this.
Life is about movement, and pause. Work, and rest. It’s about relationship. About valuing others and truly taking the time to show them they are precious. About valuing yourself, too, and your uniquely given, whispered-into-your-DNA goals and dreams.
It’s about appreciating the miraculous gift that is existence. It’s about loving on others as much as you can. And yes, it is also about appreciating what organically makes you happy and, where reasonable, finding it.
But what I think you don’t understand here is that while you may think your son has the most endearing smile, nobody else in the world cares. Nobody—and I cannot emphasize this enough—is
