Pain is not tragic. Pain is magic. Suffering is tragic. Suffering is what happens when we avoid pain and consequently miss our becoming. - Glennon Doyle

There is no greater burden on a child than the unlived life of a parent.

Rebellion is as much of a cage as obedience is. They both mean living in reaction to someone else's way instead of forging your own. Freedom is not being for or against an ideal, but creating your own existence from scratch.

Letting go of structures can feel uncomfortable and disorienting. Rumbling freedom is scary because at first it feels like chaos...But "progress" is just perpetually undoing out no-longer-true-enough systems in order to create new ones that more closely fit people as they really are. People aren't changing, after all. It's just that for the first time, there's enough freedom for people to stop changing who they are. Progress is the acknowledgement of what is and what has always been. Progress is always a returning.