I'm not around RBR very much at all either lately, but it still holds a special place in my heart. A special crazy place.

We're all molded from an imperfect society that we need to constantly try to rise above, but that is deep within us, down to the bone. Engaging with that and rising above that is difficult, and there'll be a lot of falling on our asses along the way.

Exactly. It's only by getting stuff wrong, no matter how badly we screw up, that we learn that that is actually something that can go wrong. Your multiple edits worrying that you sounded like an asshole were both adorable and indicative of said ongoing education. We all gotta just keep trying. Even if it only means failing better.

Oh god. This all sounds so ... bright, shiny and self-helpy cliché-y? But you know what I mean.