How depressingly easy it is for dreams to be dashed and expectations disappointed. I'm a completely different person to who I was two weeks ago, hell, five days ago.
I wonder if change is always for the better, and I wonder of the merit in coping with unexpected change gracefully. . Is there an arbiter of circumstance noting the quality in which men move through life?
My thoughts often center on doing things 'right' or to the best of my ability, but in a context as subjective as life it is often hard to correctly settle on a decision or justification for what was or can be.
I like a degree of certainty, I like knowing my ground, at the very least I want to know where I'm standing so I know where to step next. It's odd that I so often don't know, or just think I don't.
Clarity is a wonderful thing, as are truth, dignity and grace.
Maybe that's all there is to be, dignified and graceful under the circumstances of a wonderfully/horribly absurd unfolding of life. I'd like to think these qualities make a man, & that I have and will retain these as my pendants, amulets, jewels through life.

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