Transition

I cannot take credit for these words - they are by Iain M. Banks - but for some reason I am drawn and must share.

"Perhaps we all find such coincident place marks in the books of our lives reassuring.
Still, it seems to me that that such congruencies, while useful in fixing what one might call one's personal eras within our shared history, are effectively meaningless. Lying here, during all this time after my own small fall, it has become my conviction that things mean pretty much what we want them to mean. We'll pluck significance from the least consequential happenstance if it suits us and happily ignore the most flagrantly obvious symmetry between separate aspects of our lives if it threatens some cosily comforting belief; we are blindest to to precisely what might be the most illuminating."