"There's no turning back now," they say. Why do they say that? It has such a tone of finality to it - no mistakes, no room for failure, it seems. Add to that the sense impending doom at the daunting road that lies ahead, you know the one less taken that everyone's always talking about. So, here I am, standing at the threshold of the unknown like every hero on a journey, except in scriptwriting they teach us to write happy endings otherwise the audience feels their $20 on popcorn was wasted. I wonder if the Writer above has a similar business plan for my journey. Fumbling to tie my shoelaces, blowing away that darn strand of hair that's always in my eyes, stomach in knots, and a sharpened pencil boring an ever deeper hole in my pockets. Opening credits start to roll, and I'm supposed to look straight into the camera as the world watches me pretend to know my lines. Does anyone else feel like their feet are on fire? Do I run? Do I stroll casually and wave confidently at the passers-by?

There's no turning back now. They say. The biggest mistake is to never move forward, the worst failure in being too afraid to fail, a sense of impending doom that you have finished writing every story that you came here to write. What can be worse than having no more pages to turn?”