To be desperate for days, weeks, months, years, and decades. To be desperate to the limits of endurance, at the same time not committing, or even contemplating, suicide, it’s the bravest thing in the World.
To be a secret society member is very seductive. It’s the same as having a mistress, or secret account in Switzerland. When your secrets get discovered, it’s similar to having diarrhea and realizing that too late.
If all cells in our body replace themselves every five years or so, can we then conclude that we are new persons, in the same intervals? The trouble is that all cell replacements don’t happen simultaneously.
More often than not, when you go to a doctor, he sends you home only with – advice. It would be the same as if you go to a mechanic with a broken transmission, and he sends you home with advice on how to heal it, so it might start working again. But the transmission is still broken.
