Cynicism; Skepticism

Do the standard answers no longer sound so profound, nor so true? Do the questions at times seem stronger than the answers?

You are married, or intensely committed, to a vision, a goal, a dream. Then along comes life . . .

We spend our youth building up cynicism, then we come to our twenties and thirties and are suddenly expected to make all those big life changes, like marriage and kids, that require faith in our fellow human beings, not to mention ourselves...

The cashier was a little out of the ordinary. Scary, actually. It was entirely possible that he was the scariest cashier I’d ever laid eyes on.