One of the great and terrible things they don’t always tell you about becoming an adult is that after a certain point, there are no more excuses. You may have reasons for behaving badly, but they are no longer sufficient to justify bad behavior. Your life is no longer predominantly a reflection of your family or your school or your past, it is yours. And while you will not always control your circumstances, you are now responsible for your own character in the face of those circumstances.
This is a burden and a gift. We must each decide who want to be, and then do our best to live up to it.
“It’s not the honors and prizes of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It’s the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff.”
— Mister Rogers
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J.R. Johnson 
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