Personal Mythos: Fight your own battles, bury your own dead.

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There are a few things that really stick with me from Neil Gaiman's _American Gods_, and one of them is "Keep your head down, do your own time." And it just occurred to me that that's because it ties to the title up there, something I must've internalized years earlier. (Probably during middle school. ;) ) And it further occurs to me that the comfort in it is that you can choose which battles are yours. They're not thrust upon you. You're not obliged to fight for anything but yourself, and you get to choose how you define "yourself".

Eh. Another of the echoes in me from _American Gods_ is, "The shit they ate. You would not believe. Like rice wrapped in leaves and shit." So go figure.