Brace yourself, for the world knows how to betray.

Taken from a journal, written December 24, 2009 @ 4:25pm

The world knows how to betray. Unfortunately for me, I didn't know how to brace myself. So I drowned among the experienced and the selfish. The air was like needles, the water like acid. All was deadly, all was dangerous. So I had no choice but to hold my breath and hope to survive without the use of my lungs or gills. "Let me live without poison," I begged. And after my lungs were punctured, and my skin burned to the bone, I gained the knowledge which taught me how to survive by the own muscle in my arms and the brain in my head.