Hi tie, welcome. Glad to hear youve started to grow out of the emotional 'time of life' and have started to face the real world.
We all start out as babies with our hands out. First, all we do is whine and complain (especially after we sh*t ourselves). Then we learn to crawl. Then we walk. Then we run. Some of us even grow up to fly and to soar.
Only 2 types of people are totally reliant on others for their existence. The very young (babies) and the very old. I take that back. There are also liberals.
But its a process. It takes time and real world experience. The important thing is youve decide to get up off the ground, discard the (depends) diapers and to give self reliance a try. Some of us stumble more than others ... but the journey has begun.
Anybody knows its easy to be a comedian -- with a foul mouth. It takes real smarts and talent to be very funny w/o the barrage of profanity. By the same token, its real easy to be a liberal wherein feelings and emotions oftentimes trump reason and logic. But to be conservative you have to be principled and you have to be able to enunciate the mechanics or the workings of it, the profundity of which can be rather tedious at times. In other word .. you have to THINK.
But generally speaking, it just gets better and better. Hope you enjoy your time with us.