If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
My relationship with my father had been on the proverbial fritz since the time I was fifteen and called the police to report him for child molesting. He had never molested me, but I wanted to have a party that weekend and needed him out of the house.
To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.
I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.