This is everything I learned from the original three different versions of myself. I took each of these names traveling to different places in my head. I called myself Grace in Star trek. Miri in Greek Mythology times and 'in an age when nature and magic ruled the world'. Didn't call myself Sophie very much but I would have in any 20th or 21st century setting, like Sliders or Stargate Sg-1. To fix an ancient problem of having that name actually kind of forced on me my the first people to use it. They assumed it was my given name on my birth certificate because the name 'Sophie' fit me so well, --without even asking me what my name was-- I stopped calling myself that in any of my adventures. By the time I saw Criminal Minds, I called myself 'Sarah' in modern adventures.
But anyway each of these 'mantras' belongs to
Miri: A horrible death at the end of a good life is better than a quiet death at the end of a wasted one.
Sophie: That existing to continue your existence isn't worth it if your existence isn't worth fighting for.
Grace: That giving up your life is worth it if it makes a difference in the life of your friends; whether that 'life' is your existence or your time.
What makes life worth living isn't the big stuff it's the important stuff...and those two things rarely coincide.
That last one is MINE from my own Pleasant Valley Middle School, Wichita KS high school, living with divorced parents, going to two different churches, life.
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