How do you know

Being your own person is a daily exercise. It requires daily effort.

Who you keep, who you keep at bay, and who you keep away are daily decisions along with what to eat and what to where and its coincident questions of when and how.

We renew and build. We destroy and banish. In the end, what matters are relationships, whether in your dying bed or in your pursuit of happiness, one of which is better shared.

Being alive is an active decision. Like being happy – being happy is a decision. Choose to be happy by doing what matters most. Be happy by doing what scares you because you enlarge the areas where you are less afraid.

Write about it. Play it in your mind like an LSS. Talk about it. Expose yourself to it externally. Roost and let it stew internally. Breathe it, drink it and eat it until you live it. I know is not I am. What are you going to do about it? That's the only thing you can control.