No more waiting for this to be over first, no more waiting for that to happen, no more rushing towards the time of our lives. Because, this is the time of our lives- there is no other time but now, and there is no other shot at life but the one that’s already begun and already slipping away.

My eyes look to the horizon, to the rising sun peeking out from behind the haunting clouds, determined to embrace the world, like a phoenix after death...like an adamant eucalyptus tree, after a crippling conflagration.

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