Lying awake all night trying to remember if you have insomnia or amnesia really doesn't achieve anything.
“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
“It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.”
Psychology differs from Sociology only to an extent If you kill your neighbor in which case psychology blames you and sociology blames your neighbor.
i've never entirely trusted courage. its too easy to misjudge a situation when your ego's involved. (and this leads to tragedy often)
what good is trading everything away to get something else, if you can't keep anything long enough to create with it? the value of anything is the enjoyment you get from using it. not what else you can trade it for. (nor what people think because you have it either)
"failure is not an option" - is a very romantic sounding thing to say. in reality, success and failure are simply things that both happen. options or the lack of them, have nothing to do with it. there are only the odds, and everything you can do to improve them. but that's it. barring myracles and strangeness, there is only the odds, and what you can do to improve them.
if we wish to live in a happy, peaceful AND gratifying world, (which yes, we ARE perfectly capable of) there is only one fantasy we need to reject, it is that of belligerence being heroic. (so simply so obvious, and so easily and frequently forgotten)