"I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me"

This quote talks to the idea of looking for something outside of ourselves to make us feel total. It is a pointer that we frequently search for something or someone to come into our lives and make us feel fulfilled, when in reality, we have the power to make ourselves feel fulfilled. It is a suggestion that we have the power to make our own lives fantastic and that we should not depend on another person to do it for us. It is a pointer that we need to take the time to appreciate ourselves and the things we have in our lives. We need to make the effort to acknowledge our own worth and to make our own lives fantastic.