The Turning

She was sick of conversations with people passing through. Nothing you said to each other mattered a damn because you'd never see them again.

It's a survival thing, making yourself a small target.

Though it seemed so beautiful, the world around us was eternally dangerous. The price of spiritual freedom, we learnt, was eternal vigilance. Such a high price for so long.

"All the big things hurt, the things you remember. If it doesn't hurt it's not important."

The past is in us, and not behind us. Things are never over.