To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.

Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars.

If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.

Chuck Palahniuk Quotes