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I think there are many layers to this scene. What Aziraphale’s words might actually mean:

The speed of the car. While it might seem so at the first glance… nope, it’s not about that.

What Aziraphale probably thinks he means is about being friendly with the enemy, not only about The Arragement of helping each other out when working to make their Head Offices happy, but now also helping with other personal matters, about spending time with each other, about being more than agents stranded far from home who sometimes share a meal. He is asking Crowley to give him time because he cannot get used to the idea that quickly (well, quickly for an immortal) but he is not discarding it alltogether… (similarly when in the knight’s time he vehemently refused The Arrangement and in the Shakespeare’s era we learned that they helped each other dozens of time). He knows he will fold.

skeleton: loud laughs, messy hair, candle lights, creaking floorboards, oversized sweaters, aloe vera, do no harm but take no shit, easily excited, gets sad when thinking about the past, plucking fresh fruit, handwritten letters

angel: house plants, soft hands, fuzzy socks, the color yellow, vanilla scented candles, fruit smoothies, in love with dogs, impressed easily, would die for their friends, the one to lift others up, pastel markers, actually organized, neat notes

fairy: baking cookies, high ponytails, wants to visit paris, good at teamwork, neutral colors, dresses nicely, very emotional but doesn’t want anyone to know, determined, doesn’t judge people, cats, high-waisted jeans, small apartments

vampire: daydreaming in class, can be very distant, a little dramatic, humorous, loves greek mythology, vintage t-shirts, pretty handwriting, tangled up earbuds, probably hasn’t slept in two days, has too many notebooks

siren: hand veins, ouija boards, the mom friend, quick-witted, ripped jeans, would die for their friends, kill them with kindness, has a welcoming vibe around them, hopeless romantic, optimistic, unsent love letters, hard worker

I used to be a varsity swimmer, and I was damn good, but I was forced into it by my parents and completely lost my love for it and therein my drive. But in high school I was swimming against such talented swimmers like Olympic Swimmer Missy Franklin. I’ve met her, and the main difference between her and me was that I was strong but had no passion, but she was strong BECAUSE she had passion. 

And I could have been good, really good, maybe even Olympic good. I even have the predisposition for it, been swimming since I was 2 years old, have a mom who was almost an olympic swimmer. Missy didn’t have either of those things, she just wanted it, loved it, had been doing it for a long time, and decided she was going to kick ass at it.

Right, that’s great and all, but I completely missed my opportunity to be an olympic swimmer, yeah? and can never achieve those dreams I had as a kid? No, not even though. There was this whole thought that female athletes peak when they’re 17 years old and lose their skills quickly after that, and male athletes peak around 19. But then Olympic Swimmer Dara Torres shows up. She was an olympic swimmer when she was 17, 21 and 25. Pretty normal age for retirement. She had a few kids. She kicked butt at being a mom. 

And then at 33 years old she decides she’s bored or something gets back in shape and kicks so much ass at the trials that she lands herself on the Olympic Team ONCE AGAIN. And then 8 years later, she decides, heck I’m 41 now, no one has ever made the olympic swim team as old as I am, I want to get in shape yet again and teach these children how sports work.

And she still has the record for oldest US Olympic Swimmer, not even any men have beat out that record.

So basically what I’m saying is you could be an olympic swimmer, you really could be. And there are obviously a lot of things stopping you and trying to get in your way: your brain, society, too much chocolate cake for example. But if you really dedicate yourself to it and love it with all of your heart you could, you really could.

And lets say olympic swimming isn’t your jam? That’s cool too. There isn’t a single skill in this world that you can’t learn if you absolutely love it and want to. Any skill you want is going to take time. There are countless famous people who started learning a skill after 20, 30, 40, or even 50. Not a single person has even been president under age 35 (most likely because you’re not allowed to be, but there’s a reason for that). Whatever you want to do you’re probably going to be bad at first, and I’m talking really shitty.

Van Gogh got started in his 20′s and was thought to have no artistic talent at first and was forced to sit in the back of classrooms where the worst artists in the class sat. So yeah you’ll probably be bad, like really bad and everyone including you will think you’re bad. If you stick with it though, if you’re willing to work for years and years, if you keep loving it after all the pain it’s given you, 

then you might just paint Starry Night.