Happy New Year!

"Sometimes it's not enough to know the meaning of things. Sometimes we have to know what things don't mean as well. Like, what does it mean to not know what the person you love is capable of? Things fall apart, especially all the neat order of rules and laws. The way we look at the world is the way we really are. See it from a fair garden, everything looks cheerful. Climb to a higher plateau and you see plunder and murder. Truth and beauty are in the eye of the beholder. I stopped trying to figure everything out a long time ago.

If I know nothing else, I know at least one thing is true; that the sacred is in the ordinary. They tell you that everything is nonsense. Gravity is nonsense, relationships don't exist, jobs don't exist. Everything is up for grabs and there's no cause for anything. That's what they'd like you to believe. I guess you could say I was pushed downhill, but my fall from grace didn't end at the bottom of those stairs. It went on, and it seemed to go on forever. All of life is a balancing act, and we make choices between extremes. Conformity or freedom. Acceptance or doubt. Humility or ego. We have to make choices. People mistake fact for opinion. The easiest enemy to overcome is an opinionated one. Expect the worst, and you'll get it. That's about all he ever taught me. In jail, there are a lot of guilty guys who are innocent. Outside, there are a lot of innocent guys who are guilty.

All of us in some way are trying to kill time. But when it's all said and done, time, ends up killing us..."