Is there hope for sanity? If I can come to terms with my past, if I can accept that everything that’s already happened was required to get me to where I am now, if I can accept that where I am now is an essential part of getting me to where I want to go in the future, then I might be able to manage to achieve serenity, and serenity is necessary for sanity. Some people seem to have a few screws loose. My brain is a whole box of loose screws. Actually, my neurological synapses are like a huge blob of tangled Christmas lights. I used to love to spend hours on end untangling Christmas lights. Untangling my brain, however, is a different story. It’s like an old telephone switchboard with all of the chords plugged into the wrong holes. Approaching the task is daunting, to say the least. Without serenity, it’s an impossible task. Serenity is what allows me to make sane decisions regarding what to do next instead of reacting haphazardly in a torrent of swirling emotions, which only makes matters worse. If I want my life to get better, if I want to live with serenity and with sanity, then I need to change a few of the variables in order to get different results.