In stepping out of fear and into the unknown, we must stop trying to predict patterns, as we search for past experiences to compare feelings to. In order to experience something completely new, we have to allow for something to unfold in its own way, without trying to control or predict it. It is to surrender. In this we allow for it to surprise us in a way that creates a new experience. And we begin to re-write a new story, a new self. And in here is where we begin to experience life in its infinite potential. -Dani Ortman

I try to take myself as who I am today, in this chapter, because I understand that my life unfolds over sand dunes and not mountaintops. It is always shifting beneath my feet, sometimes on the up, other times on the down or even the sides. There is no mountaintop. A mountaintop implies stasis anyway, yet the process of becoming never ends. The knot of wanting, the web of betterment... they never untangle.

There are no destinations. Just open road, some good views, and the shedding of multiple skins until the last one.