A "bumper sticker" from my youngest from Facebook; a good way to start my new adventure: my new job. I am excited, anxious and a lot of other emotions, too.
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all - MLK, Jr.
From Wiktionary http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pariah: In the caste ridden society they were in lower strata, hence the derisive paraiah and pariah. Now, the term is used to describe an outcast in English.
It also pertains to the hawk that I see myself as.
EXPECTING THE BEST IN VIEW OF THE LESS THAN EXPECTED