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“You must respect your elders. They cleared the way for you so that your path is easier. But if you see them falling into a pit, then you must learn to what?”

“Step around.”

“That’s right. Diverge from that path and make your own.”

Practical people know life was too hard to judge each other’s choices, too messy to live according to abstract ideas

His words got me thinking

Obama is putting all the thoughts I’ve had these past two week into words that I can conceptualize in sentences