"Iron sharpens iron." If we all sought to "just get long" what a boring, stagnant bunch we would all become. It has been the grinding in life that has helped to form me into the person that I am. A lot of the grindings have been painful, but in them, I have learned a lot of lessons. One of the biggest lessons has been that I can be as much of an ass as anyone. In that, I have learned to be less judgemental of other asses. After all, if someone as nice as I am can be an ass, then surely, I can allow others to be asses also. :D

I got the Rodney King joke, by the way.