And They Shall Hold Their Manhoods Cheap,

It's such a long way. And it seems so obvious when you get to the hindsight part but you can't go through life knowing in advance how it will all shake out. And you never thought it would be the uphill that would excite, the struggle, the taste of the chase and how forbidden. Doesn't that go away in around the tenth grade, you think to no one in particular, because the voice in your head is the only one you can make any sense of anymore. When you've taken so many hits and continued on with it, and shouldn't that count for something? But too late you realize that it's not up to you to make sense out of it because you're not dealing with a situation that is in any way logical. Before you can come to that consensus about the thing, though, you feel like you could bend crack break with just the slightest push.

But you will take your licks and grow big and strong and it will go on. You will be better for the experience, even though you will still want to wish it away sometimes. But it gets better, it does.