[Ain's answer is given simply, with a shrug and a glance toward the horizon. He's barely smoked this cigarette down, too busy talking and letting it go to waste. He did say he wasn't much of a smoker.
Still, he'll take a drag himself and exhale a ring of smoke, watching it float into the sky before he talks again.]
There was a long while after I left home where I wondered if it was all worth it, and if I shouldn't try to change just to make my life easier. I was real cagey for a long time. Got caught up trying to change things that wouldn't change at all. What actually needed to change was my perceptions of myself and my weird parental hangups that my mom left me with. Lo and behold, it doesn't matter if people hate you, as long as you love yourself enough to make up for it.
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[Ain's answer is given simply, with a shrug and a glance toward the horizon. He's barely smoked this cigarette down, too busy talking and letting it go to waste. He did say he wasn't much of a smoker.
Still, he'll take a drag himself and exhale a ring of smoke, watching it float into the sky before he talks again.]
There was a long while after I left home where I wondered if it was all worth it, and if I shouldn't try to change just to make my life easier. I was real cagey for a long time. Got caught up trying to change things that wouldn't change at all. What actually needed to change was my perceptions of myself and my weird parental hangups that my mom left me with. Lo and behold, it doesn't matter if people hate you, as long as you love yourself enough to make up for it.