Because just like being tailgated on the highway makes me go *precisely* the speed limit, someone telling me they don't think I should do X with my life or I ought to really conduct myself in Y fashion makes me even more determined to machete my way through the path I've chosen for myself.
Here's the recipe as I remember it from more than 35 years ago.
How do you go about forging ahead without these people you trusted and revered?
lessons about how to be an adult filter through you when you're a parent, and you spend a lot of energy hoping that those lessons will stick, that they will carry something forward from those brief moments you have together.
After all the sifting and sorting of facts and opinions, I've chosen a conclusion.
Meg Currell 