[ Stop... his wife... but I guess tbf Daan is also kind of like 'how did I get married' energy himself anyways. ]

...

Birds don't learn to fly until they take that risk. Kids don't learn to play until they know how much a knee scrape hurts. Practice makes perfect, and pain makes living... something like that.

Wounds can't heal if you don't have them in the first place.

[ Daan isn't one of those hardass people who think suffering is a necessary facet of living -- in fact, he'd like a lot less of it in the world, too. But he knows it's what people say, that living your life afraid of every broken bone isn't actually a way to live. ]

You'll never know if you don't try, right?

Sometimes all you can do is try.