I've Always Been A Fighter. If You

Because Of The Friends I Have Known, The Honorable People I Have Met, I Know I Am No Solitary Hero Of Unique Causes. I Know Now That When I Die, I Will Live On. That Which Is Important Will Live On. This Is My Legacy; And By The Grace Of The Gods, I Am Not Alone.

Nostalgia Is A Necessary Thing, I Believe, And A Way For All Of Us To Find Peace In That Which We Have Accomplished, Or Even Failed To Accomplish. At The Same Time, If Nostalgia Precipitates Actions To Return To That Fabled, Rosy-painted Time, Particularly In One Who Believes His Life To Be A Failure, Then It Is An Empty Thing, Doomed To Produce Nothing But Frustration And An Even Greater Sense Of Failure.

Do We Behave Out Of Fear Of Punishment, Or Out Of The Demands Of Our Heart? For Me, It Is The Latter, As I Would Hope Is True For All Adults, Thought I Know From Bitter Experience That Such Is Not Often The Case. To Act In A Manner Designed To Catapult You Into Heaven Would Seem Transparent To A God, Any God,for If Ones Heart Is Not In Allignment With The Creator Of That Heaven, Then... What Is The Point?

No, I Would Not Want To Live In A World Without Dragons, As I Would Not Want To Live In A World Without Magic, For That Is A World Without Mystery, And That Is A World Without Faith.

The Gods Of The Realms Are Many And Varied -- Or They Are The Many And Varied Names And Identities Tagged Onto The Same Being. I Know Not -- And Care Not -- Which.