certain choices are made, decided, long before the actual decision is really made, actions and words, definitions, and decisions, all this and more about things, about people, about lifestyles, about choices, serenity prayer, the courage to change the things i can, patient to accept the things i cannot change, and the wisdom to know the difference, and maybe the difference finally gets known, finally makes itself clear, the fog lifts, and the smoke clears, and one man is left standing, and a path remains in front, with footsteps and footfalls fast approaching, trees and bushes and roses and flowers, smelling so fragrant along the path, and it feels right, the grass underneath, the wind in the face, the sun beating down on my shoulders, it's good