>> Well, I'm older, so I've got a bit more experience and perspective. (Also, I would likely be more upset if I'd watched someone I love die.) <<
Cas was 16 when Evie died, he has just turned 18, and he has gotten precious little actual parenting while he was growing up. So he's missed some things that he should have learned growing up, on top of not having much life experience yet. That's making it hard for him to handle certain challenges. Give him a practical problem and he can usually solve it. But when it comes to the abstract or the numinous, he flails.
>> The other half of it:
You can't change the past, but you can learn from it to change the future.
Also, you can only act based on what you know in the moment.<<
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Re: Thoughts
Date: 2021-06-23 08:07 am (UTC)Cas was 16 when Evie died, he has just turned 18, and he has gotten precious little actual parenting while he was growing up. So he's missed some things that he should have learned growing up, on top of not having much life experience yet. That's making it hard for him to handle certain challenges. Give him a practical problem and he can usually solve it. But when it comes to the abstract or the numinous, he flails.
>> The other half of it:
You can't change the past, but you can learn from it to change the future.
Also, you can only act based on what you know in the moment.<<
Both very wise.