DAY 60.1

 

"Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognized I. Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face - the face of the child, the boy, the young man, the not-so-young man - all present still, preserved like fossils on superimposed layers, and, like fossils, dead. Fear, after all, is our real enemy. Fear of growing old and being alone."

― Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man