Patience is the key to achieving great endeavors.
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.
A story is not like a road to follow...it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows.