"Not with that attitude there isn't." There's being needlessly contrary, and there's having a different point of view; Wash would like to think he's doing the latter right now.

"You can't just flip a switch and be better. It takes years, and it's all setbacks and fuckups and shitty decisions that you have to recover from before you can move forward, and it's really fucking hard to wake up every morning and choose to keep going! But if you really are committed to making things right, then that's what you have to do. Your first setback was a fucking doozy, but if you really want what you said you want, then you can't let it stop you. Because if you do, then that's it. Game over. If you want to change, then you have to try and keep trying."