avowed

those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained and the restrainer or reason usurps its place and governs the unwilling.’
‘without contraries is no progression. attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate are necessary to human existence.’
‘one law for the lion and ox is oppression.’
‘no bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.’
‘prisons are built with stones of law, brothels with bricks of religion.
‘all deities reside in the human breast.’

When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.

It’s much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody. I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everybody was, especially me. I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and than make the choice to share it with other people. You can’t just sit their and put everybody’s lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can’t. You have to do things. I’m going to do what I want to do. I’m going to be who I really am. And I’m going to figure out what that is. And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn’t do or what they didn’t know. I don’t know. I guess there could always be someone to blame. It’s just different. Maybe it’s good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. Because it’s okay to feel things. I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite. I feel infinite.

Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.