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< The Hardest Part about Growing Up
Should you all live long(er), it'll change several times, quite possibly for the better, quite possibly seemingly permanently unto last breaths.
My dad mystified me of my life. But then my mom passed a couple decades ago, and I got to witness him living and making choices out of the context of being with my mom - the only context for him I'd ever known.
He surprised the heck out of me freed from that relationship - and there's was well above average good. And, yet, of course there were shackles, just like there are shackles called the opinions and/or potential reactions of others in public posting spaces that can alter one's public posting anywhere from subtly to "making" one abandon ever doing so again.
Turns out we're not only a lot more alike than I thought, but I'm actually envious of what I'll call his "ongoing vicissitude response": shit just rolls right off of him. I want that badly, and am grateful I've still a living example of what that looks like, so that I might figure out how the fuck it's done in real circumstances.... :-)