Excerpt: "It is precisely in this seemingly incoherent landscape that your greatest potential for adjustment arises: the capacity to discern where genuine human connection ends and where wishful thinking begins, and to find dignity in acknowledging what cannot be perfectly resolved."

Excerpt: "Perhaps the most compelling slice of insight now is found in your growing recognition that your usual mental agility cannot mask any underlying void of true purpose. You are forced to acknowledge that your intellectual strengths must reflect a more authentic internal centre, or else be discarded like brittle shells."

Excerpt: "From the deepest recesses of longing rises a faint but persistent voice, quietly questioning whether the relentless pursuit of imagined perfection may be masking a fear of accepting your present reality as it stands. "