I've been going through a lot lately. Friends and relationships changing and ending - loss of job, lots of stress. Other things. Just a lot. But just before my birthday I opened this fortune cookie and I'm trying to make it my mantra. I'm trying to keep it important. "To Shine Is Better Than To Reflect", as a sentence is okay, but it's meaning is grand. I am not a foil of some main character - I am the protagonist. I am the star that lights up the universe. I have more power than I generally recognize, and here is where I'll find my strength to get over these issues, move past the problems and make myself into something I respect.