[ CW ] `` If you put them together it was obvious to see , but I 'd held them piece by piece , and my life was all the emptier for it . ''

It should n't have taken this long for me to learn this simple lesson. I was a goddamn fool. Wealth, power, love, family. They're all set in a convoluted web really. If you put them together it was obvious to see, but I'd held them piece by piece, and my life was all the emptier for it. I'd blindly chased down the seemingly obvious roads to obtain one piece, forsaking the hidden side paths that would have wound around all of them. I have material wealth and political power, and yet my palace is empty. I could have been happy. I could have drawn power from the love of my life, felt the wealth of fatherhood. Instead, I sit here, my career is my spouse, my bank account the only thing I can watch grow. And I regret not making that turn on the web.
