It's easy to allow the world to collapse down to our own stories. To see ourselves as the central figure in the only story worth knowing and forget that every person we encounter is living their own, is the center of their own universe. But that's the nature of the human experience.

What if you’re wrong? What if I screw up and the world burns?”Fadil shrugged. “Then I’ll buy marshmallows and we’ll watch it burn together.

I’d never ride a rocket into out space, so standing at the edge of the ocean was probably the closest I’d get to touching something boundless and greater than myself. For me, the ocean had a way of putting the rest of the world into context for a couple seconds.

The world burns from the inside out. You don’t see it until it’s too late.

And yet, despite being faced with so much hardship and pain, we continue to live. We continue to struggle and fight for our place in the world. We continue to try even though we know we're going to lose. That's the real miracle, not me.

There's an amazing world out there for you to discover, Henry Denton, but you have to be willing to discover yourself first.