Your perceptions are often more accurate than you are willing to believe. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot with your whole heart. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
I want to also have lived the width of it as well. To mend and defend. To defend my new-found friends. Their hopes and dreams. To defend them from their enemies.