I’ve always loved the 2009 movie, and this thought has kept me going. If another fan can relate, I hope sharing it can do that for them.

Somewhere out there, there’s an alternate timeline where my father never got hurt when I was 3. The ramifications didn’t systematically destroy my family, and he didn’t end up dying alone in a parking lot. There’s a better version of me. Someone confident, who married the girl of his dreams, and his children never have to worry about any of what’s happening now.

But we live in this one. It’s up to us to decide if we have what it takes to tough it out.