I feel great, to be honest... In a very real way, it seems like a part of my spirit died, or went dormant; and remained in the town I just left. About 1.75 years ago, when I crash landed in Cookeville, I was completely cooked... I mean, very thoroughly and utterly destroyed. There was the barest semblance of a person left, after escaping the horror of a human parasite, who was my oldest and dearest childhood friend; that had since become a swindler, and used that friendship to bankrupt me.

And very, very gradually, with an amount of luck that can only be attributed to divine intervention... I rebuilt myself. I lost 62kgs, relearned how to "adult" as they say, and through many travails, regained my Life. I have -become- the person I was in 1998, before that part of me was made dormant.

And the utterly bizarre thing is, that the world we live in now, socially networked and web-connected, is the Exact world that I dreamed of then... The world I needed then. 

It's almost as if I've been in a cocoon for 20 years...

I'm a little grayer now, my joints a bit creaky... But I truly haven't felt this Alive in decades. Few people get another chance at life... 

And I'm damn well gonna take that chance.  😎

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