It's said that the Year of the Snake brings wisdom, transformation, calmness, and tranquility. For so many years, I kept on trying to put myself into other groups and hope enough people would start liking me so I'd fit in. Now, as I approach 40 and feel the reality of mortality sinking in I have come to accept that was never going to happen. In this life, there are those that are center stage and others who work behind the curtain. I've been a supporting role for the lives of others for so many years now, not as the main character of my story but a presence in theirs. Funny enough, there are a select one or two that believe I don't have any self preservation and they're right. I'm safe from myself because I won't be the one to take me away from another, but when that time comes in any form I will greet that light as an old friend.