James R. Doty

, it is your thoughts that create reality. Others can create your reality only if you don’t create it yourself.”

taught me the pointlessness of wishing for a different past and the futility of worrying about all of the frightening futures over which I had no control.

Sometimes the thing you want most is just someone to tell you, tell you anything. Because that means you’re important. And sometimes it’s not that you’re not important, it’s just you’re not seen because the pain of those around you makes you invisible.