All of us assign different values to things, and not all of those values are going to line up with others'.

I'm not a big fan of the white lie.

Almost no one can take on an entire future in one step, much less while reeling emotionally.

When you are stuck in a group of people who merely trade turns at talking about themselves instead of actually conversing, it could be a matter of their not really knowing how to converse as opposed to being too small-minded or excessively Facebooked.

There's nothing wrong with being happy somewhere, even if it's the little pond you grew up in, as long as you are in fact comfortable vs. bored.

You can't make someone agree with you, not even when you're 100 percent sure you're right.

When in doubt, respond to what you witness, not what you hear secondhand.