You know, my grandparents never told me, ‘You can be whatever that you want to be’ because I think they felt and I feel that that’s a lie. Nobody can be whatever they want to be. No kid can do whatever they want to do. It’s a total lie, but they have the right to try to do whatever they want to do. That’s their right, to aim to do whatever they want to do. And you know what? Life might kick you in the face, life might not let you do what you want to do, but they always taught me that, you know, ‘Go for it! Yeah, you wanna do that? Go for it, son, you’ve gotta do it.‘ And that was actually empowering because from a very early age I knew that, you know, life was risky but you gotta take those risks.
