Me: “I’m stressed… I can’t think when I’m stressed.”
     Voice: See the light at the end of the tunnel?
     Me: “Yes… Good, it’s almost over…”
     Voice: Steady your course, slowly.  It could be an oncoming train.
     Me: “And this helps me how?  I told you I’m stressed…”
     Voice: Slow down…

     Voice: If you’re always looking at what’s behind you, how will you ever see where you’re going?  Here’s to shrugging off the old and embracing the new without worry, fear or regret.  Change is change … it’s what you make of it that matters.

     Me: ”That could’ve turned out better.”

     Voice: “So could everything.”

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     Me: “I need something…”

     Voice: “Grab it.”

     Me: “I can’t…”

     Voice: “Then you don’t need it.”

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     Me: “They keep trying to force a situation…”

     Voice: “Let it ride…”

     Me: “I can’t.”

     Voice: “Then they won.”

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     Me: “Damn, what am I supposed to do now?”

     Voice: “What do you want to do?”

     Me: “Talk…”

     Voice: “Has that been working?”

     Me: “No…”

     Voice: “…”

     Me: “I listened, too.”

     Voice: “…”

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     Me: “I just keep getting in over my head…”

     Voice: “Remember how to swim?”

     Me:  Hmmm… This is a great plan, but how do I…

     Voice:  Start by not questioning.  Finish by doing it.

     Seriously, I wanna take this fucking thing and shoot it.

     Voice: “You know what you did?”
     Me: “I quit.”
     Voice: “Why?”
     “I needed to.”
     “Do you?”
     “…”
     “Do you?”
     “Yeah.”
     “Do you?”
     “Fuck off.”
     “No.”