I would like to think that I'm a better person and all this is worth it. I would like to think that my everyday actions and life-changing decisions are justified and that they do not undo everything else I've built up in my life, as opposed to what chiding voices around have been telling me. There's this myopic view of things I tend to be trapped in, where I am convinced that chance and circumstance dictates my direction. If I didn't really naively believe in that notion, I'd say that would be a total shirk of responsibility to myself.

And if only it was that easy to be all smokin' brave about it just by getting some magical lion's heart or courage potion from the Oz guy.

"I was Gandhi. I was so freaking Gandhi, I kicked Gandhi's ass!"