She saw through the shell of me into the center of me

In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.

For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.

The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.

Which, then, brings us closer to what we want to communicate: saying what we intend, or trying to say the opposite?

As long as I am thinking, I am alive.