A few fac­tors have helped make things eas­i­er in the last lit­tle while, but per­haps the most sig­nif­i­cant is the real­iza­tion that almost noth­ing around me has changed. That all cere­bral influ­ences have remained fair­ly sta­t­ic in activ­i­ty.

And I think to myself, “How could I have been so stu­pid? How did I not come to this real­iza­tion soon­er?”

And hav­ing lived a lit­tle more, loved a lot more, every­thing seems brighter.