Every once in a while...

... there comes an event that makes you change the way you look at yourself.

You realize that you’re perhaps not as independent as you thought you were, not as guarded as you imagined yourself to be and definitely not as cold as you made yourself out to be.

In that instant, you also know that your views on life have been shaped differently, yet again, for better or for worse.

It’s the best out-of-body experience, every once in a while.