The remarkable adventures of Liedra On the internet

“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.”

“My grandmother told me something not long before she died, that resonated with me, because I had been through a series of relationships that all started great but turned dysfunctional. She said she should have divorced my grandfather 45 years earlier. My grandfather was a major asshole 99% of the time, and I wondered why she had stayed with him. She said that “back then, people stayed together even though they were miserable, and even if it meant you would live a miserable life. And people thought they would eventually find happiness in heaven, but now it just feels like a wasted life … there is not going to be heaven, and I missed my only shot at happiness.”