With children, they don't really have that much of a life to reflect back on. Getting a perspective is therefore much more difficult.

You know, it was an amazing thing from my own perspective, ... I appear white. When you had mixed-race children in those days, you took your black father's identity. So it was a little strange to be sitting there with this white couple and they were my aunt and uncle.

Attitude is everything. How you see it is how you treat it. What is our perspective about underage drinking?

Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.

I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of death.

Logically, I understand that it wasn't Edward's fault my family fell apart after he left. But when you're eleven years old, you don't give a flip about logic. You just really miss holding your big brother's hand.