I know I'm opening myself up just a little too much, but if I feel myself going in to an emotional tailspin, I've found that the best thing to do is take control of the yoke (figuratively speaking...I don't grab my yoke) and go straight into a steep nose dive.

Grab your 8 year old daughter and both of ya just sit down and ball your eyes out like a couple of kids that just lost their favorite hamster. Soon as you can breathe and talk again, all will start to look brighter. Sometimes ya just gotta get it out of you in order to move on.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.