[He’s still older, still probably wiser in a sense. In multiple senses, even if they’re not exactly conventional in their own experience. How can someone walk away with any manner of certainty, no matter how long they’ve learned? That sort of confidence in choice is as foreign a concept as growing up feels to be most days - the only times they’ve ever had earnest confidence in their choices were selective and in the periods of time when they were at their lowest, most usually.]
Does it ever get easier?
[They ask him because they know he can’t lie. They ask because he can’t be the typical sort of adult in god moment, who can bundle it all away in some sweeping, patently false platitude and hope that will suffice.]
no subject
Does it ever get easier?
[They ask him because they know he can’t lie. They ask because he can’t be the typical sort of adult in god moment, who can bundle it all away in some sweeping, patently false platitude and hope that will suffice.]
[Does it ever get easier]]