You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity.
And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams...
And so, rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt by life.
You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.
I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.
