my advice

i don't know if you or i will win or lose

winning and losing is not the point of the game

my advice is

be who you are

not who you think you might be

or who you wish you were

or any other such nonsense


be who you are


i know such is not permitted even from childhood in our time

but life seems to require such things

and life is what we actually are

life is not a thing

but life is all things


what we are

is all we can ever be

and perhaps sometimes not be

for a while