I Certainly Made Mistakes.

I Was Able To First Snap The Radius And Then Within Another Few Minutes Snap The Ulna At The Wrist And From There, I Had The Knife Out And Applied The Tourniquet And Went To Task. It Was A Process That Took About An Hour.

A Crystalline Moment Shatters, And The World Is A Different Place. Where There Was Confinement, Now There Is Release. Recoiling From My Sudden Liberation, My Left Arm Flings Downcanyon, Opening My Shoulders To The South, And I Fall Back Against The Northern Wall Of The Canyon, My Mind Is Surfing On Euphoria. As I Stare At The Wall Where Not Twelve Hours Ago I Etched “rip Oct 75 Aron Apr 03,” A Voice Shouts In My Head: I Am Free!

It's Me. I Chose This. I Chose All Of This — This Rock Has Been Waiting For Me My Entire Life. I’ve Been Moving Towards It My Whole Life.

Perhaps It’s Time, I Muse, To Close Those Chapters And Remember The Enduring Lesson Of My Entrapment: That Relationships, Not Accomplishments, Are What’s Important In Life.

May Your Boulders Be Your Blessings. May You Be Able To Embrace Them. And May You Find What's Extraordinary In Yourself.