Our character is defined not by one, but rather the sum of our choices. When Reddit user Kindly_Zebra3960‘s son had to decide who to invite to his high school graduation—with only three tickets to give—the father knew there was no easy answer, and advised the teenager to follow his heart and pick those he truly wanted by his side.
Buy ultimately, that meant snubbing his stepmother in favor of his biological mom, and the lady had a big problem with that. She even started suspecting that her husband planted this idea into the kid’s head because he had ulterior motives.