It is not for the gods to decide whether or not Man exists - it is for Man to decide whether or not the gods exist. - J. Michael Straczynski

run outside and shit beside a dumpster, just blasting like a firehose, and a cat runs out covered in awfulness and all I wanted was to die, right then and there, in front of God and everyone.

I did whatever was necessary to take control of my life and circumstances because having agency, authority, and control over oneself is the most important thing in all the world. It is the power to say, ‘I will go this far and no farther.

But the more I talked to you, the more I listened to you, I began to see the beauty in you. In all of you. And I've been moved and humbled by it. I wish you could see yourselves as I do.