That's why self-esteem doesn't work. Because of reality. You know it and I know it. Something's not right, and it doesn't become right because we tell ourselves it actually is right.

There was an exercise we did at Wayside – the fifth and final rehab I went to – in which we went through the Gospel of John and summarized every chapter, wrote it down in our own words. That’s when I met him again.

The books and articles all say something along these lines: 1) Figure out what you wanna do and do it, 2) poor us, we have too many options.