[post] Look, I have spent my life depending on other people's schedules —...

Look, I have spent my life depending on other people's schedules — factory bosses, government offices, bank clerks who decide if you eat or not that month. You become autonomous or you become a beggar with a job. The difference between a man and a dog is that the man decides when to work and when to rest, what to plant and what to leave fallow, which lies to believe and which to ignore. Everything else — independence, dignity, freedom, all these words people throw around — they come after autonomy or they do not come at all. My sons understood this faster than I did. The one in Tbilisi, he built something that belongs to him. The other one, I do not know what he built, but at least he chose the building.