Let me draw it out for you, simply and clearly, for as long as I'm drunk and see no need to edit anything.

(Don't edit anything, sober Vince. Shut the fuck up. You watched Nikki in Heroes did you not.)

I've been watching 'Pan's Labyrinth'.

The true test of adult-hood is not whether or not your dreams as a teen survive your journey to maturity. It's whether all your decisions all still stand true despite *everything* life throws at you. And that includes everything in the face of whatever discouragement you have experienced.

If not, you adjust. You amend. You revise your expectations.

Don't get cynical. Don't be sarcastic. Then you won't get old.

You think everyone else uses magic?