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Current Talk '14 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #0816
« on: October 22, 2014, 10:42:07 PM »Tim a bit younger than DB makes sense, especially since he and Rachel were intended to be pretty close in age. Tim really is very abusive to poor Nora--absolutely inexcusable. No maturing there, Tim.
There was an image out there, then even more than now, that forcefulness is part of maturing. Forget sentiment, time to deal with harsh reality, making the tough decisions... being tougher may enable you to get past a lot of hurdles and obstacles in life, but you also miss the point of life, and end up just being a great, big wad of "toughness". People generally take most things too far... if a little toughness is good, a whole lot is even better.
Petofi shows this, with his, "What I wanted, I took. I owe the boy nothing." Step one is the toughening up, step two is realizing that step one is false maturity, and thawing out. Many people only get as far as step one.