And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all. - Maurice Sendak

Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!

And when he came to the place where the wild things are, they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws till Max said, "Be still" and tamed them with the magic trick of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once. And they were frightened and called him the most wild thing of all and made him king of all wild things.

I am not a religious person, nor do I have any regrets. The war took care of the for me.