The world does not reward potential. It rewards proof. Nobody cares how intelligent, talented, or visionary you believe yourself to be if your life produces no visible evidence of it.
Getting married sounds stupid as fuck until you see a single man in his 60s Go home alone, read a book, only one light on in the house, no goofy kids visiting for the holidays
Suddenly a dumb argument with a pleasantly plump aging wife twice a week doesn't seem so bad
When Joseph Kennedy, father to John, Bobby, and Teddy, decided his daughter Rosemary was too wild, he got her a lobotomy.
When Charles de Gaulle had his daughter, Anne, who had Down Syndrome, he loved and played with her constantly.
In this life, be a Charles, not a Joseph.
Fact of the day: The Kiribati word for dog is βkameaβ
Before the English first arrived there were no dogs. Then the locals heard the English shouting βcome hereβ when their dogs ran away, and presumed that was what there were called.