Giving Thanks

Pretty ironic how I only began to appreciate my life once I realized how meaningless it was.

The nice guy loses

"I was late to understand that chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life. Normal people are not always boring. On the contrary. Volatility and passion, although often more romantic and enticing, are not intrinsically preferable to a steadiness of experience and feeling about another person. These are beliefs, of course, that one has intuitively about friendships and family; they become less obvious when caught in a romantic life that mirrors, magnifies, and perpetuates one's own mercurial emotional life and temperament."

Is it odd that I never found instability to be appealing?

Praise

Praise from your family or your friends doesn't necessarily mean anything. They have a social obligation to lie to you.