All I can write is what I know and what I know is this: the world changes everyday and, if you let yourself, you will change with it. I've been thinking a lot since I came to this part of the world, about people and places far away and out of reach, and about the ones staring me right in the face, that I couldn't or maybe wouldn't want to escape from. This phenomena around and inside of me, be it physical and present or conjured up by memory or fantasy, are the tools the world has given me. With their influence my thoughts are shaped, though not set. That final moment of assessment, the one that ultimately predicts mood and action, that is entirely up to me. This notion of understanding instills in me
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