Hi, welcome to life. Not the serial, not the board game, the actual life. I can even use its last name,

life itself. While you're here, and it hasn't been forever, and won't be forever, you will form

attachments to nouns, people, places, and things. you may experience love, which is wonderful and enriching

and just the goddamn best. That, I should have said, is the good news. The bad news is that you

will experience losses. Not death all the time, but sometimes, yeah, death. Relationships may crumble, idyllic situations will end.

And remember what I said about life not being forever? Mm-hmm. Well, you will likely lose some people.

And then you will have that loss and grief and all that goes with it.

Meanwhile, while you're in life itself, you are also participating in time.

Not the magazine, not the Morris Day Band.

I'm having a hard time defining time, so I'll lean on Webster's.

Time, the continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole. And time moves in only one

direction, forward, taking you with it at the speed of time. So when these two get together, life and time, again, not the magazines,

you have loss and you have forward motion, and you have grief and a linear march of existence

that is living in time. And at that point, maybe you make something.

It's depression mode.

I'm John Moe.

I'm glad you're here.

This wasn't linear.

No, it wasn't step to step in.

The process for me at least Was just a

Perpetual progression

Because just when I thought that I had accepted it, I'd just sink into another depression.

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