“It’s strange knowing your ship has come home. After all the work and hardship, the sacrifice, everything, you relax, you can breathe. The world is at your feet. I hope that one day you’ll feel that way, too.”
I listened to the old man’s spiel about growing up poor and desperate and how, through hard work and sacrifice he had pulled himself up by the bootstraps. I tried hard not to roll my eyes nor to avert his gaze. He had “forgotten” to mention something we all knew to be true; someone had opened the doors of opportunity for him, and when he strutted through them, he slammed them shut and threw away the key.
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