That's what I hope for everyone; the opportunities to chose your
own influences wisely; watch out whose car you get in if you
don't know if they'll bring you safely back home again.
"Is THIS what it means to be a success? Does this match what _I_
consider to be 'success'?"
My view has always been an ego-centric one. Had I been raised in
an environment that was less individualistic and more communal
in nature, I might have had a different philosophy about life
and made a different set of choices. I still would have been
'me' though, just expressed through a different set of choices.