Death

It's taken me 52 years to come to terms with it, really, every one of them agonizing -- but now I think I've actually come to terms with Death.

That doesn't mean in any way I want to die, but now I understand it. It's so very, very hard to understand, but at the same time it's so very simple.

Death is the absence of life. It's what you did when you were before your mother's womb. If you think of it in those terms it becomes easier, but still not easy. Life, all life, wants to live, it really, really fights not to die.

But death is no bright light, no twenty Vestal Virgins. Death is simply eternal darkness, which is where you came from.

Win some, lose some. But live NOW.