I smiled at the boy, and he just looked at me. His mother tapped
him on the arm and asked him to come with her towards my direction to sit at a
nearby table, and then it happened.
He yelled, ”I don’t want to! Leave me alone, damn it!”
So, I thought, he isn’t a particularly nice boy. So what?
The discrepancy sometimes shocks me. In comparison to my own childhood
upbringing, it was a great dissimilarity that left me wondering what exactly
could have been done about something that was doomed from its incendiary
beginning. What went wrong from that point on? Everything.
But I had come to blame myself for not being strong enough to
fight a man I was never meant to fight, never expected to stand up to, rise up
against … so what was the glaring truth of the present moment that I tried hard
to deny?
That nothing could have been done then, any more that can be
done now that everything was gone.
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