It has been a very intense process. Every word that I write in this letter is born out of love, acceptance, detachment and real contentment.

"I think that one of the functions of intense negative emotions is to stop our normal functioning, to make us focus on something else for a while, " he says.

Yes, the words I use are fierce, but yours are strangely neutral.

Only those who have not experienced this state intensely are proud of it, because they intend to become men.

"There is an intense conflict going on in parts of Somalia, " he said.