There's nothing to be done, Grasshopper. You must calm yourself.
That's easy for you to say, you weren't there; you didn't have to put up with what I had to go through.
Trouble is with us all, Grasshopper.
Yeah, yeah, sure, the rain falls on the good and bad alike, blah blah, blah. Well a whole lot of rain fell on me, you've probably never been wet.
Good times and bad times cycle endlessly. You can enjoy the good when it comes, or you can anguish endlessly over the bad; the choice is yours, Grasshopper. The rain really does fall on the good and bad, alike. There's nothing you can do about it.
There's nothing anyone can do about it.
You can chew on your troubles like a dog on a bone, or you can leave the bone behind. Dry bones don't nourish anyone. Gnawing on troubles-past does nothing but leave the bitter taste of past sorrows the only flavor you taste.
I got a bad taste in my mouth because there ain't never nothin' but trouble for me.
Ah, Grasshopper, even in your dark despair you know that's not true. If the rain falls on the good and bad alike, so too, does the Sun shine on good and bad alike.
You can linger in the gloom of the past, or you can move to the light outside. You can decide to stay - or go.
You don’t know how bad I was treated. I can't just
forget that!
You shouldn't forget. Neither should you obsess. You should remember and learn from past abuse.
You should learn most of all how to avoid such people and situations. Did anyone force you to take that job, or get involved with that person, or that crowd? No, you chose who, what, and where.
It wasn't my fault. How was I supposed to know?
We all know. We choose not to see. We want what we want, so we plunge ahead even though we know better. Afterward, in retrospect, we recognize all the bad things that happened were bound to happen. Some admit this. Others blame mean people, or bad luck - or anything but decisions they made of their own free will.
Even so, some troubles can't be avoided.
Damn straight, I'm a good person, I didn’t do nuthin' wrong!
Yes, Grasshopper, you’re a good person. You didn't do anything wrong.