prettymysticfalls:

“The world is your oyster.” I’d always be like, ‘Ew, what does that mean? The world is my oyster? Like, ew. He [my father] would be like, ‘you can do whatever it is that you want to do and you can do it on your own.’ And that was something I always wanted — to work for what I had, because if you do that, no one can take it away from you. And that stuck with me; I don’t want anyone to take anything away from me because I didn’t earn it on my own.