13

"In the end, I've come to believe in something called 'The Physics of The Quest'. A force in nature governed by laws as real as the laws of gravity.
The rule of Quest Physics goes something like this:
If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting; 
which can be anything to your house or bitter, old resentments
and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally
and if you are willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue
and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher
and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself
then the truth shall not be withheld from you"
EPL (the movie, not the football league)

He is an old man with an old sickness that has come to revisit him. "What would you have done differently?" was his question to the world.

I would do it all over again. To reach this point, with whatever knowledge or lack of it, with the same kind of losses to earn the same kind of gain, I would not change a thing.

To Strength and all who defines it, generously sprinkled with Faith and Trust; to Love and all who wills it.

To warmth, to you, to the journey.