one of our members that is having a birthday today.

And I would usually do so with great fanfare and much pomp. Perhaps some circumstance as well.

But this time I'm not going to do that. I think it would be a bit of a waste of my time and that of everyone else's as well.

Not because they aren't worth the effort. Only because they're

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.