Although he claims that he simply wanted a normal life, I really think that Sam thought of college as his salvation, his BEST CHANCE of living past the age of thirty.
Exactly, in the pilot Sam corrected Dean with "No, Dean, not normal, Safe." Which contradicts everything that fandom says. I would say, based on Bugs, that it wasn't Sam who was obsessed with normal, but Dean who was obsessed with NOT being normal.
it all comes down to which is the better PERSON
You read my mind. One of the things I feel about Sam is that he couldn't watch his father and his dad die, he didn't want to die young himself, because HE'S a care-giver. People like that feel everything that happens to people around them, almost like it happens to them. Or at least so I've noticed with the care-givers in my own family. So Sam took that chance for himself. Dean is the hero, he doesn't think of others when he goes in guns blazing, this doesn't mean he's thinking of himself, which I'm afraid a few people think I'm applying, but he neglects to think of consequences and how other people feel (thus my citation of Folsome Prison Blues).
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Exactly, in the pilot Sam corrected Dean with "No, Dean, not normal, Safe." Which contradicts everything that fandom says. I would say, based on Bugs, that it wasn't Sam who was obsessed with normal, but Dean who was obsessed with NOT being normal.
it all comes down to which is the better PERSON
You read my mind. One of the things I feel about Sam is that he couldn't watch his father and his dad die, he didn't want to die young himself, because HE'S a care-giver. People like that feel everything that happens to people around them, almost like it happens to them. Or at least so I've noticed with the care-givers in my own family. So Sam took that chance for himself. Dean is the hero, he doesn't think of others when he goes in guns blazing, this doesn't mean he's thinking of himself, which I'm afraid a few people think I'm applying, but he neglects to think of consequences and how other people feel (thus my citation of Folsome Prison Blues).