I'm alright; as violent waves crash upon the mind the air grows thick in the midst of the storm,
I am the rock amid the turbulence - unmoved, unbroken - I will come through this as I have before and will again: weathered with experience, but still here;
if some day I become half of what I've aspired to in these words - or a tenth of those who've made me - I will consider this life well-lived; until then I am nothing
