What the hour usually sounds like

It has a shape, and the shape is remarkably similar from person to person.

There is a drop, quite fast. Then the sentences arrive, and they are not about what happened. They are about you. What kind of person does this. I have been praying and doing this in the same week. Everyone thinks I am something I am not.

Then a decision gets made, and it always sounds like a good one at the time. Never again, starting now. And it is that decision, oddly enough, more than anything that came before it, that sets up the next one.

If you are inside that hour right now, you are still in the right place. You have not failed a course you started twenty minutes ago.