"Hey, I never said that," Kanji points out. Yeah, news travels here, he knows Jack's love life is a mess right now. Maybe that's an attitude he should have expected from him. "All I mean is it took me a long time to be okay with myself. But I got there in my own time and that's what matters. I didn't want to get involved with anybody if I was too much of a mess for them to deal with. Maybe somethin'll happen with somebody here eventually and if it does I can handle it now. If I'd rushed into anything when I was younger I think it woulda hurt me and anybody else, that's all."
You would have been hard pressed to get him to say anything about the subject when he was younger after all, much less that much. But if there's one thing he's known for a long time accepting all the good and bad parts of yourself is hard, but worth it in the end.