humansofnewyork: “You change what you can: you stop wearing baggy pants, you quit picking you

humansofnewyork:

“You change what you can: you stop wearing baggy pants, you quit picking your nose in public, things like that. But when you’re done changing all the things you can change, and you’re left with the things you can’t change, and they still want you to change, then you start to know in your heart that it’s not going to work. The divorce was scary and confusing and emotional, especially because there were kids involved. But in the end, there was a peace. There was finally a truce of sorts.”