Not failed, you're just not buying into the stereotype, it makes you a forward thinker. A revolutionary, if you will.
There were certainly times that I thought it would be tragic. But I did alright for myself.
I think that if my parents were still alive we would be much the same. I spent a very long time putting my father on a pedestal and it was only recently that I realized it was okay to be angry even though the man was dead. It's not fair to either of us to pretend he was something that he was not. Brilliant, definitely. Father of the year? Not so much.
Things are always a little unpredictable, situation or not, things are always unpredictable. I hope things work out with your [...] person, and just try and stay the course. Whatever that course is, try and stay on it. Even when it gets all fucking bumpy.
Orin and I are great friends and it wasn't easy to settle down and believe that things were going to get better at first. It took practice. And while he seems to think that if he swung my way I'd drag him to Hawaii to start a life together, he is wrong. I'd have that screwed up before the ink was dry on the paperwork. Because despite it all, that is a course I wanted to stick to, regardless of how things might have turned out if the situation was a bit different. If that makes any sense at all.