After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.

Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.

Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.

Somehow people have been sold on the idea that only professionals can entertain them, that only professionals can sing or tell jokes. And people are cut out of this creativity loop, and creativity is being limited to these large, centralized voices.

The answer is there is no answer.

Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things - they save you.