Don’t take any of it too seriously. Self-serious drivel. It’s all absurd. Easy to laugh about in hindsight. Have to laugh, you have to.

Don’t follow the lives of those married or on the verge. When things go quiet, you’ll know. Their lives will bring you down with them.

Carve out your paths. Carry your own tools with you so you may do it alone. Help others with theirs as you’re willing and able.

Die in the desert, away from the surrounded places. It’ll all be a desert soon. Their yards of old clotheslines and dead grass.