I Don't Want To Be

I Don't Want To Be The Person Digging My Own Grave.

I Spent So Many Years Just Saying What I Felt Without Thinking About The Ramifications, Without Understanding That I Have This Opinion But Not Everyone Might Share That Opinion And Now They Don't Like Me Because Of It.

There Were So Many Lean Years. A Lot Of Lean Years.

I Don't Make Big Grand Gestures, Generally.

My Mother Is A Realist, And She's Had Biological And Adoptive Children, And She Said It's No Different: No Matter What, They're Putting A Stranger Into Your Arms. You Don't Know Them Yet.