Betrayal is advancing myself at the expense of the one who I committed myself to advance.

If I’m conceited enough to believe I’m invincible, then maybe it will take me doing the very thing I swore I would never do to understand that I’m not as wonderful as I thought I was.

I can work on changing what I’ve become. Or I can stop engaging in the things that have made me become the person I’m trying to change. And if I’m not serious about the latter, I can forget the former.

A commitment to never getting knocked down is in reality a decision to never stand up.