Safety

 It is important to be safe. To know that your gut is always on your side. To know that history does repeat itself, and sometimes it is not even subtle. To know that you see the shades and degrees of cowardice in men who raise their hand and play it off as a drunk escapade or a joke. To know that if someone cannot even face a day sober without drinking, smoking, or getting stoned, he will never have the balls to do much else. To know that, with people, safety gets compromised when respect does. And when that happens, important to write off an equation as a bad debt. And move on. Without extending the courtesy of a goodbye.