SECTUAL

So maybe it wasn't JUST your mom who dropped the ball and gave you an early bad impression of life...

That's what I get for assuming things.

I don't blame you for feeling the way you do, and I am sure you've made all the right choices and the ones you were supposed to make.

Yeah, there were many "adults" in my childhood who helped shape my worldview. My dad knocked up my mom when they were dating, I wasn't planned. Back then getting married is what you did when you got pregnant. My dad was a Vietnam veteran with severe undiagnosed PTSD. No one really even understood that stuff back then. When he started becoming abusive my mom bolted when I was 3. I've learned to laugh at almost everything. It may come off as callous to others, but I find the world is best viewed as a comedy. If you can learn to laugh off even the hurtful/tragic things it makes life easier.

"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.” ― H. P. Lovecraft