Adjacent to my predetermined destiny lay a fate unknown, and with this revelation poses the question of questions, where now should I go from here?

Should I tread softly along the track laid before me? Or shall I stomp and struggle through the abyss? Terror reaches all minds and palpitates all hearts, it moves the flimsy and corrodes the strong, but it is not terror that rules the mind, it is the ego, the ego and all of its tricks and snares, pumping the everlasting processes of our flawed mind with pride and fear. Some dare not deviate from the path set before them and some dare not plunge themselves into the abyss without at least a witness to give them comfort.

I will not make this mistake, I will scratch and claw through the thick hide of the abyssal plain to a fate unknown and I shall do so without a witness, for the endeavors that make us masters of our own fate are not the  endeavors we undertake while others are around to bear witness…

I am Aurelius, I am Seneca, I am Epictetus, I am Emperor, I am advisor, I am slave, to my own mind. Fear not the abyss, and let all be revealed, in this life and the next.

Written by: Marcos Lopez 3/23/2020