Answer Number 1
So here I was searching... I come spinning in like a tornado meeting random people in almost forced, awkward situations, ending up their friend or maybe something more. Binding our realities together in a massive journey spanning what seems like endless days and nights of worthless celebrations of gains and losses. Now I'm ready to move on... I'm ready to find myself in relation to what everyone else is, and accept/respect the difference. I'm ready to never take advantage of anything ever again. I'm ready to lose all self only to gain ultimate selflessness. I'm ready to honor this life that I was given, I'm ready to honor everyone and everything that's ever lived by never giving up and striving for only good. Striving for and pursuing truth and honesty and NEVER accepting anything less. I'm tired of the questions, the what's the where's the how's... the endless doubt-induced inquiries in my mind: "Am I insane? How did I end up here? I didn't grow up in or near Coeur d'Alene. Neither did I really grown up in Cullman, or areas near LA, or Medway... yet I'm supposed to be from all of these places... I look at things now and I wonder... is this real? Am I really here? How did I end up in these situations? And why have I been living the life that I have?"
This is the new chapter. This is where the rubber meets the road in the galaxy of thoughts amassed inside your mind, waiting to be formed into a spear that you will stab into the heart of fear and doubt. This is now or never. This is right. There is nothing else. It's not so much as that I will not take no for an answer, as it is that no was never an answer, and it never will be. It is not my destiny. It is not my destiny to be blended, processed, and spat out like the endless droves of hipster-tough-gangster-fly-richie rich wannabe Bradley Pitts that roam in the downtown streets lined with seats that never fill in the bar and grills. I'm tired of those roads... If you need me I'll be on the corner of peace and understanding firing missles of truth at the walls of ignorance, while being resupplied by passion and love... the alleyways I sleep in.
Maybe it took an angel to reach into my heart and see the light, see the fire, the good in this world... I think so. Well her wings have matured, and like all angels, she must fly back to heaven. Now what's next is up to you and me.
-Daniel Mark Mc Laughlin








