Some people spend their lives hoping for something

hoping for something to happen

Some people spend their lives

hoping for something to happen

that will change everything.

They look for power or love,

or the answers to their biggest questions.

I think really what they're looking for

is another chance,

some way to lead another life

where all the mistakes they've made would be erased

and they could just start over.

Nothing bad has happened yet,

and all their possibilities are still in front of them.

People come home for a lot of reasons.

They come home to remember.

They come home because

they've got no place else to go.

They come home when they're beaten.

They come home when they're proud.

They come home looking for a door out into their past

or a road out into their future.

They come home for a lot of reasons.

But they always come home to say goodbye.

Some people put a lot me work into their lawn,

as if a patch of green grass

was the most important thing in the world.

As if they thought that as long as

the lawn out front was green

and mowed and beautiful,

it wouldn't matter at all

what was going on inside the house.

Do you know the feeling

of daring yourself to walk across a dark room?

That way you're excited because you know--

you really do know--

that there's nothing there to hurt you.

Some people get to choose their dark rooms.

They get to look for places

where fear is only skin-deep.

But some people are nowhere near that lucky.

When everything in your life is right on track,

it's easy to believe that things happen for a reason.

It's easy to have faith.

But when things start to go wrong,

then it's very hard to hold on to that faith.

It's hard not to wonder whose reasons these things happen for.

What makes a man who he is?

Is it the wort things he's ever done

or the best things he wants to be?

When you find yourself in the middle of your life,

and you're nowhere near where you were going,

how do you find a way from the person you've become

to the one you know you could've been?

People move through their lives

sometimes without really thinking

about where they're going.

Days pile up,

and they get sadder and lonelier

without really knowing why they're so sad

or how they got so lonely.

Then something happens--

they meet someone who looks a certain way

or has something in their smile.

Maybe that's all that falling in love is--

finding someone who makes you feel

a little less alone.

Sometimes people come to a moment when

they think they've found that one last chance

to be someone else, and they go for it.

When it doesn't work out,

they spend the rest of their lives

looking back over their shoulder

at what might have been.