And I thought about you and I, and this tension of running away and running to, and then was peacefully and gently reminded that for me the next step is to take care of the places that matter. But what's the first step? Maybe, in some ways, I've first got to remember who I was, who I am, and who I will be (which all may be the same thing) and how to take care of that self, before I can take care of the places and the people and the things that really matter.

And we walked out into that same sun from underneath those same trees and felt the last breath of the sunset caress our faces, up on the hill before the long journey.

"It is always lurking there, this emptiness, at the threshold of a journey that will start something. [...] Most certainly of all, it obliterates your ambitions, cancels the very reasons for your journey. You know that before long you will once more feel and understand and hope. But at the time there is only the emptiness."

-Colin Fletcher in The Man Who Walked Through Time