This is your life and the clock is ticking.
Well, I'm not sure what pop psychology is, but I don't like it.
You get what you ask for in this life. If you ask for nothing, you get nothing.
Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board.
There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he's held up by the others until he regains his footing.
I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.