[Nepeta]

To him, it showed only that, while life can be "an enriching Norman Rockwell experience, it also can be smothering, where you end up marrying the girl you went to high school with, and you never get to go to Europe. ... It tells us George is one of the most sad and lonely and tragic characters ever imagined. I cry when I see it."

O, what a life George Bailey could have had, going to Europe and maybe beyond to Nepal, maybe some recreational drugs, maybe some boyfriends to expand his relational horizons and explore himself...

[Pajamajan]

LOL!