We've all been this boy, Sean. Maybe we're small, maybe we're smart, maybe we're plain, maybe we're heavy or maybe we're all these things. What is sure is we're not one of 'them,' the blessed ones...the strong, the beautiful, the popular or even just the one's lucky enough to be inside of a group, a gang, a clique. We've all been that boy, we've lived his life but maybe, maybe we never learned the lessons he was given. That words said are a promise given.That having strength makes one responsible for those weaker than oneself and not simply a means of taking what little they have.That the difference between a fighter and a bully is that the former will always pay the cost to obtain the prize they're striving for, while the latter simply wants to win without paying any price at all. And maybe the reason we were never taught these maxims because we never had a man like Pop in our lives; someone willing to pay the cost so that the boy would become a man.
