S.R. Crawford

What is the date? What is the time? _ Great, that__ what Now is. And every second, your __ow_ changes. Because all we have is Now. We are continuously living in the Now. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, but Now. Today. The present. And I need you to live in it. To truly appreciate it. To breathe and feel yourself breathing.

Time passes no matter what you do.

You see, people are everywhere. They are everything. No matter who we are, or what we do, people are involved in our lives. If those people are poisonous, our lives will be poisonous also.

A seed, in order to grow, must first be planted under the best conditions. Be that space or time. I think, therefore, that you have yet to find your perfect conditions.

There is a lot of negativity and bad habits that just need to be cut out of our lives. Sometimes we hold on tightly to the things that are actually causing us a lot of pain. We are our own worst enemy. We cling to all the wrong things. We subconsciously do things that are very bad for us, the worst being that we tell ourselves every day that __e__e not good enough_ and __t__ our fault_. Well cut it out!

Stop shying away from people. If you actually took a moment to listen to what they have to say, they might just say something that will change your life.

There__ nothing worse than bottling something up inside and letting it eat at you. It__ like being shot, and leaving the bullet inside our bodies. The wound would never heal. Instead, we need to let it out.

The truth is scary. We all think we want it, but once it__ given, it__ harder to swallow than we originally thought. But sometimes, when the pain is too much, we have to be honest with ourselves. Why are we unhappy? Why are we scared? Is it internal, or external? Then when we find the answer, we need to accept it (see chapter 1), and make the necessary changes to fix it.

Less thinking, more living.

For people like us, looking towards the future can feel daunting. It can literally make us feel sick to the stomach and often induces panic attacks. Trust me, I__e been there; I get it. That__ why the far-future should never be at the top of our __o-plan_ list. It__ alright to have goals but to stress ourselves out with plans and options and worries of the future is a good way to drive us crazy. However, there is one time when I want you to consider the future. Always have something to look forward to.

There__ only so many times you can fight before the only person you fight for is yourself.

Sun and snow is an Angel__ glow, but storm and rain? That__ a Demon__ bane.

No matter who you are, everyone has a shadow; a constant darkness that follows them wherever they go_unless where you go is into the darkness itself, of course, because then you have already been consumed.

Keep your head up and your hopes high, friend; anything is possible.

You can__ make a small world for yourself, because what are you going to do when that small world implodes?

Truth means facing denial and saying I know who I am, I know who I need to be and I__ not afraid to become that person no matter what...Never be without fear; but Letti, never be without fight.

You think your children are better than mine? Ha! When yours were out playing with gold, mine were out fighting for survival. You taught your children to roll in money when I taught mine what it means to be strong.

What do you want?"To see the world burn, and a new one be born from the ashes_