#wise young fool

Not everyone has the strength to be a better person. We're all trying to pretend that not being our worst selves every minute of every day is easy. It's so not easy.

And then I'm thinking, Hey, there's another speech Kyle could be giving... About how the Litoeses of the world only find the moral of the story after the story brings them to their knees, but the moral was no where to be found when it actually mattered, because they buried it all under all the ways they were busy taking advantage of their advantages.

I sit on my bunk, in a dark room that smells like a thousand stiff Kleenex and a unit filled with twenty sweaty boys.