My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.

My mother shut all her family out of her life over the years, though we made several futile attempts to stay connected. May God rest her soul.

I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.

I'm always coming up against scepticism in my life.

This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.