[If Red's words had come a year earlier - even a few months earlier - Vinnie's spirit would have been completely broken. But the timing as it was, he had to admit to himself, the end result of the talk had really still been the same. It had just been a parting on much, much worse terms.

He'd been afraid of being worthless for so long. This was already the worst case scenario - and now that it actually happened, it meant... Vinnie really had nothing to keep fearing. He knew his own worth, and he had a path that he wanted to follow, independent of his team. None of that had changed.]

Keep following the original plan, I guess. Get a major. Focus on actually learnin' something from th'school I otherwise couldn't.