By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.

Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her.

The world is deterministic, but it's chaotic and emergent.

Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.

To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.

He was my entire world. He still is. My best friend, lover, partner in crime and my other soul. But he didn’t agree. A person isn’t supposed to be your entire world, he said. But he’s wrong. When you love yourself, you love others. When you find yourself, you find others. When you create your world and it’s thriving, you create others. And I built an entire world for him. For us. As he once built for me.