Thinking about how Stan and Ford had very different reactions to their father constantly being unimpressed by everything they do.
Bc on one hand there’s Stanley who gave up trying to impress his father and decided to not try to please someone who could never be pleased, and on the other there’s Ford who made it his goal to finally be good enough to impress his father. I think people tend to forget that since the pines family was poor, no one believed that the kids would really amount to anything. I think that’s part of the reason Bill was able to trick Ford so well. No one in his life had ever believed that he could achieve greatness, so when he discovered a seemingly all powerful deity who was singing his praises, of course he would fall for him.
I’m honestly starting to get a little pissed with all the posts saying that Ford is an inherently bad and selfish person, and that “he’s like this because his dad was telling him he was the best” because NO HE WASNT!! The ONE time he ever heard his dad say he might just be proud of him was when he had the possibility of getting into that prestigious college, and when he couldn’t do that, he spent his whole life trying to make up for it
Like sure he was asshole-ish but it wasn’t out of selfishness and vanity, it was his desperate need to prove himself, which is something that both he and his brother share.
I hope you believe that you can still make a beautiful life for yourself even if you lost many years of it to grief, or darkness, depression, or a wound that wouldn't close.