Like planets around a sun, our lives must have a steady focus: this is what childhood has taught me. Without one, gravity would have no pull. Still, it is our endless attempts to escape these orbits that propels us; it is our feeling imprisoned that creates the velocity we need in order to keep moving forward, to keep moving fast.

I am an only child, myself a steady focus. Orbits are contingent upon me. I cannot escape, or even try to. I can have no velocity.