So long as you understand that, I don't think there's anything else I can tell you. You're the one who's going to have to carry out your decisions. You can't let anyone else make them for you.

[There's no reason to please the instructors at every turn, from his perspective. You can make the instructors as happy as possible, and you'd still be shackled by their expectations. It wouldn't make it any easier.

It's about operating within boundaries. He doesn't like it, but he's beginning to readjust to it.]