About Neptunus Lex is that when he's writing about pilots and flying, he's often covering universal human themes:
In real life it doesn’t work that way. In real life, the person who’s falling apart on the inside holds on to the only kind of order that still exists in the chaos that they’ve made for themselves.
I knew a guy once - good friend of mine - who was one of the best pilots I’d ever known, a real natural. He was, unfortunately, somewhat incautious in his personal attachments, with a marked tendency towards loving rather more well than he did wisely. The specifics are tedious, but suffice it to say that his personal life was… complicated. Eventually a particularly dramatic crisis presented itself and he spiraled into a dark place into which those who knew him well and cared for him had a hard time reaching. Kept flying though...
Find a quiet moment and read it all. As one commenter said, "That’s a lot to take in for someone who is as introspective as myself."
