This is going to be an odd thing to conclusively “do”. My dad IS proud of me, as far as it goes. Unlike everyone else (literally, everyone older than me) on my mother’s side of the family, I have not been to jail, I do not have illegal habits or small children, and I’m not leeching off the government because I don’t have the will to get off my ass and work.

But I still feel like I want to make him proud. I want to put everything I can towards doing one thing that will make him say he’s proud of me. I’m just not sure what that is quite yet. 19 months ago