The Best Things You've Learned From Your Parents

Well uhm... I'd say the best experiences are the ones that were left untold. You'd learn a lot faster and its rather more profound impact on yourself. I was left without a parent when I was 11, so I learn a lot about the importance of managing your life early on. She fucked hers up pretty badly.

Really, she didn't have to tell me anything, just a simple look back into all that shit we (my brother and I) went through then was incredible. Its near impossible to forget because it became a major life lesson from then on.

But I know this though, the most important lesson she ever taught me before she died was just DON'T EVER fucking sugar coat a lie to your own damn kid.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Yeah, sorry about that. I've been cutting myself up too many times.

But you know what! LET ME FIX IT.

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Originally Posted by Solidus Snake

Jack, listen to me. We're all born with an expiration date. No one lasts forever. Life is nothing but a grace period - for turning our genetic material into the next generation. The data of life is transferred from parent to child. That's how it works. But we have no heirs, no legacy. Cloned from our father, with the ability to reproduce conveniently engineered out. What is our legacy if we cannot pass the torch? Proof of our existence - a mark of some sort. When the torch is passed on from parent to child... it extends beyond DNA; information is imparted as well. All I want is to be remembered. By other people, by history.

There's nowhere I can't reach.