“Avoid falling apart as your life falls apart. Who then will pick up the pieces? Keep it together and discover what holds your life together.”

Circumstances can break without you breaking alongside them, and only the first of those is compulsory. Somebody has to be upright when the sorting out starts, and no one else is available for the job. Innocent had money, health and a relationship give way in the same stretch, and used each one as a reason to work out again what he wanted from the years ahead. A life you rebuild yourself gets handled with more care afterwards, because you know what went into it.