"Sometimes, we have to take people at what they have to give, not at what we want them to offer. If Lord Borr wants to teach in an effort to prove something about himself, or about me, then we let him teach. It doesn't matter that his motives are not about you. We have to work with what we've got." It was one of those life lessons that usually took decades to come up with.

You could shake your fist at the world for not giving you all that you needed to be successful, or you could dig in your heels and work with what you had. One led to dissatisfaction, and the other a glimpse of freedom.