The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
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"Home is where you are..."
"Fear is all in your head."
Like football and art, like anything that anyone in the world has ever wanted, love was a dream. And just like a dream, there were no assurances behind it. It didn't grow on its own. It didn't blossom without food to feed it.
It was the greatest in its subtleties.
It was the strongest in its selflessness.
And it could be forever with someone who wasn't afraid to never give up on the possibilities it presents.
You couldn't expect anyone to take care of you better than you could take care of you.
Life was all about choices. You chose what to make out of what you had. And I wasn't going to let it make me its bitch. I could be a mature adult who knew her limits. I could be a good person. Maybe not all the time, but enough.
What no one tells you is that the road to accomplishing your goals isn't a straight line; it looks more like a corn maze. You stopped, you went, you backed up, and took a few wrong turns along the way, but the important thing you had to remember was that there was an exit. Somewhere.
You just couldn't give up looking for it, even when you really wanted to. And especially not when it was easier and less scary to go with the flow than actually strike out on your own and make your path.
My little brother didn't drink at all, and I knew it was because of our mom's drinking problem. While he was four years younger than me and had spent less time in that household than I had, he remembered enough. How could he not? But I didn't want to avoid alcohol because I was scared of what it could do to me. I didn't want to demonize it. I wanted to prove to myself that it wasn't a monster that destroyed lives unless you let it.
I wanted to be better. I wanted to be a good person. I wanted to be someone -not necessarily someone great or someone important- but someone I could live with.
"You can't live your life bottling everything up. You need people, even if it's only one or two, to believe in you, and as smart as that boy is, he doesn't understand that."
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When I was a kid, I learned the hard way how expensive the truth was.
Sometimes it cost you people in your life. Sometimes it cost you things in your life. And in this life, most people were too cheap to pay the price for something as valuable as honesty.
When life gives you lemons, you get to choose what you make out of them; it doesn't always have to be lemonade.
…I knew firsthand that life could be taking you in one direction, and the next moment, you'd be going in a completely different one.
Because that was the way surprises worked- they didn't tend to pencil themselves in to your schedule and let you know they were visiting ahead of time.
“Touch my wife again, and I’ll break every bone in your goddamn body.”