The Best of All Possible Worlds

One of the advantages of having languages as a hobby is that it can take you quite a while to run out of swear words.

Blood is blood, you know? There’s too much shared history and too many cross-connecting bonds to ever totally extract yourself from that half-smothering, half-supporting, muddled net called family.

What you describe as the product of a mental imbalance, I would classify as swift, intuitive thinking to arrive at creative solutions.

And stop thinking you’re the superior ones! You’re just another drop in our gene pool! We’re all descended from peoples who thought they were kings and gods and who found themselves to be almost nothing at all in the end. Don’t let that be you.

“Ever wonder if you’ve done the right thing?” I asked him finally.

“Frequently,” he replied. “Legalities notwithstanding, to not wonder indicates a dangerous lack of awareness of the nearly infinite array of choices presented by life.”

The ability to know another’s mind does not preclude the likelihood of misunderstanding it.

I don’t want easy. I want true.