Take a Breather

[AFK]

A key to keeping sane in this existence is building and maintaining sanctuary.  Whether it be physical or mental, providing a shelter from the tumult is important for stability and survival.  Not a sanctuary completely shut off from the outside world.  Not a place where you wash your hands of the negativity that is in a seemingly endless state of transpiration.  Indeed, it should be a room with a view.

For we will need to leave this sanctuary to join others as they throw down.  As they take up arms to push back against that order which would pen us all into windowless cells.  So we need to be aware of what is going on. 

But we need to take care of the self to protect the self and preserve the self.

Selflessness begets selflessness.

(which doesn't preclude those moments that call for an immediate action of risk to preserve the precious life of a loved one.)

And then we can do nothing to help others.

[Kai]

If you take sanctuary in your principles, it doesn't matter how much the world changes, those will remain the same. Set up your core around anything else, and it's bound to be disrupted at some point.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

If you take sanctuary in your principles, it doesn't matter how much the world changes, those will remain the same. Set up your core around anything else, and it's bound to be disrupted at some point.

And this is the crucial failure of the United States since 2001.  Earlier, really, but that's when we completely walked away from even pretending we have core values as a nation.