You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.
“It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.”
“There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.”