What my uncle thinks

I'm totally into quotes at the moment. Thought much about Randy Pausch and his quotes this evening. I thought immensely about them--"Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want," and the one about brick walls and there being a reason for them: to prove how badly we want something. Thought and thought and thought about him, and those quotes.

Thought and thought.

"Our past does not define us... What defines us is how well we rise after falling "~ unknown

My uncle thinks and has thought, forever, that I should have moved in with him after my mom died---I probably would have if I hadn't had my dog---my dog could not have come and he probably would have had me sell everything I had ever known. He thinks that is the reason I'm where I am----I didn't move in with him.

Wish someone would tell him that wouldn't have worked.

Brick walls and experience.

I guess he thinks he would have steered me in some other direction than education. I guess he thinks he would have steered me in the correct direction. How it galls me that he thinks he was right and that he thinks I proved him right.

Galls me.