noticing how my aches & pains are gradually creeping upwards from my ankles, past my knees and rapidly approaching my hips.

Hope it skips my balls!

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.