I opened a real book today for the first time in quite a while, and I don't mean a text book, or anything like that. I mean a book that was just for enjoyment. It was exhilarating. I forgot how much I love reading. For the few hours it took me to read it, I was free. It provided a welcomed distraction from my confused, broken, overwhelming thoughts. I fell into the story, became part of it. I lived through the characters. I learned. The message was profound. Meaningful. I feel enlightened. I have the courage to make my decisions. If only I can muster the courage to fulfill them. Carpe Diem.

We are the music makers
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lonely sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World losers and world forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world, forever, it seems.
With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up with world's great cities,
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire's glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample an empire down.
We in the ages lying,
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with out mirth.
And o'erthrew them with prophesying
To the old on the new world's worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.

-Arthur O'Shaunghnessy