I know this thread belongs to you CL and I read it and some of it I understand. I coached baseball for many years. The game can be used to teach life lessons. Some of the kids picked up on it. Some didnt. The ones that didn’t are the ones who break your heart. The last one became a heroin addict. Then he became a thief, a burglar, and an armed robber....in that order. When he was arrested I wanted to go visit him in jail before he got sent to state corrections. I know he would have needed someone to mentor him. I couldn’t bring myself to do it. I didn’t want to expose my family to him when he gets out. I am done with being exploited that way. But I don’t feel authentic. I feel kind of counterfeit. I have the team pictures from back when they were innocent and unblemished. Some of them I want to turn the clock back and have an intervention. But they have to be authentic too, right?