"Don't try to destroy a beautiful part of your life just because remembering it hurts."

Sometimes strangers can make so much sense without even trying.

The realization that life has it's own way of re-teaching you all those lessons you forced yourself to forget can be quite humbling. Faith. How could I forget Mrs BL-Snr? I have it right over my desk. It's been 8 years and I still believe. So the vision gets blurry, and the concepts are a little fuzzy but the core stays the same. Yes, there will be days. The pendulum will continue to swing and sometimes it will stay stuck on one end for a while but you always know it will swing back to the other side. It can't not do that. Why? Because it's a pendulum, dammit, and that's what they are supposed to do. If that's blind faith then so be it.

That's what's been bothering me. Not being ME. Once upon a time being cynical was cool. But that's not her anymore. Not the her I want to be. Not dark. Not morbid. Not sad. A little strange. A little evil. Sometimes even a little lost (because that is just so much fun) But never, god never, without faith.

The moment she had decided that, the little girl crawled out from under the desk and smiled...