• How pathetic to have such pride over something, but all it takes is the realization that a parent disapproves and you crumble
• How ignorant to think that you've grown when after a single discussion you walk away with jelly legs and the huge relief that you didn't need to defend yourself... and perhaps fail
• How machiavellistic that a simple thing like the tone of a parent's voice could give you palpitations
• How regretful having taken for granted the times when a family was closely knit and you could proudly proclaim my family is together
• How sad is it for a child to feel unloved and unappreciated
• Just as terrible for a parents to feel ignored
• How happy the days when no one was rich and everyone wiped windows, climbed ladders together
• How careful to hear that you've become so monotonous, that everything is planned and needs a reason to it, how boring your life would now be
• How nolstalgic to hear you were never like this

Courage is knowing what not to fear.
~ Plato