After yesterday’s signal fire I sent out to you, I wanted to practice what I preached, I wanted to prove to you that it is possible to be vulnerable, to open yourself wide open to someone coming in and saving you. This, my friends, is precisely what happened to me. I’m going to tell you truths that not many know, parts of me that I just don’t speak of often, as even though I give out basically every thought in my head, I don’t speak about me or my past often. For a long, long time, I was sick with various ailments, stomach conditions that we now know come from a long list of food allergies and intolerances, but also sick with this misbelief that I was destined for a very still, very sheltered life. I convinced myself that the world didn’t need me, and I didn’t need it, and I was perfectly fine staying at home in my tiny bubble, forever. I washed out any desire for travel, for adventure, for seeing what this wide world had to offer, and I lost myself. For