The way I saw it...

Don’t do problems. 

Just deal with them later

and then later never comes,

It can start to all get a little bit too much sometimes. 

- but worse, because you can’t even admit to being one (and also because you’re probably too far out of the angry-teenager age range to even qualify). 

It’s in nearly everything you do. The reckless ideas that will forever remain inexplicable. The times you drop your commitments for spontaneous plans. Your refusal to acknowledge that you want the same thing every last person on this godforsaken planet wants.

Then again, if you’re considered a “rebel” by any standard, you’re only out of line with societal constructs... and who’s the authority there? It doesn’t even matter, because the only person you should ever care about answering to is yourself. 

The sad but honest truth is that usually nobody around here is obliged to give or do anything for you in return for most of the things you do. If you're expecting anything, chances are you won't get it.

*This isn't pessimism, it's realism. And now, for the optimism (as always):