He bit back the first reply that came to mind -- that he had no right to enjoy anything, after all he'd done, after all he'd lost, but that would just talk them in another circle, so he shrugged his shoulders. "Maybe," he murmured softly. "If I can ever figure out how." He didn't exactly know how to go easy on himself, after all.

But maybe that was the secret. He just had to go hard in a slightly different direction.