I used to grind my teeth really bad when I was very young. I stopped when my father said "stop grinding your teeth or I'm gonna pull the damn things out!".

Good ol' dad! Always coming up with cheap and violent cures for stuff like that!

Wonder why I was grinding my teeth.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.