I've been thinking more clearly and concretely about my goals and needs for my life to be my vision of a happy one. In fact, I even wrote it down during some quiet time at work today. It was a very relieving and empowering exercise-to feel like I can make it tangible. Before it was just an abstract, which is too plastic and vulnerable to the sorts of influences that would destroy it. Now, it is there, on paper, like a contract to myself and those who intend to be in my life.