This really resonated with me (because I think I’m just about everything my family didn’t expect and it was my life’s Imperative, with, yes, a capital I, to leave their world) when I heard Nancy Updike say this at the end of “This American Life – God’s Close Up, Season 1″ by Ira Glass
Choosing not to become the person your family expected is painful. You have to leave their world completely just to make sense of your own life and then fate lures you back whenever it can to give you the chance to measure the distance between their world and yours and see if it’s still just as far as you remembered.
