I was accepted to Boston University, Xavier & University of South Carolina...and went to school near home. Missed opportunities? Probably, but then if I was present for those, I would've missed the ones I got. Would my life be better or worse? Nah, just different.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.