Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. - Mitch Albom

You have one family. For good or bad. You have one family. You can't trade them in. You can't lie to them. Sticking to your family is what makes it a family.

Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.

"You need someone to probe you in that direction. It won't just happen automatically."
I knew what he was saying. We all need teachers in our lives.