RE: Snowflake
Hi Darren. I already covered the police, the parents would eat them. The bigger point I was trying to make is that the environment we are raised within can make or break you. But ultimately you have to be responsible for the choice you make. It's like the movie "American X". Change is hard and for a five-year-old, it has the potential to cause more psychological damage then he had already had. Additionally he had a pure soul, he understood that he wasn't ready to leave, and perhaps by letting the cat and me go, he was displaying that someday he would free himself from that lifestyle. We may not be able to change the past, but we can choose to change our future and discover our own truths. And that can only happen for each person if the follow their own journey. Casey and I were at a fork in the road, and he was unable to join me on journey.
So that kid will continue to eat people most likely
Not necessarily. Each of us has a journey, who are we to determine what the future holds. I have faith and hope that people are innately good. And at one point or another we come to the proverbial fork in the road. I am remind of a line in Robert Frost’s poem... “I took the path least traveled, and that has made all the difference.” Alledely, we become entirely new people every 10 years, on a DNA and cellular level, thusly who knows? As a person who has taken the path least traveled, I’ve taken forks of regret and forks of success. But ultimately it has been in my conviction of who I am and what I want to be that has forged my belief that the choices I made were right for me. Perhaps, it will be the same for Casey in the story. I leave his future open to the reader to surmise.
Thank you for your response! Xoxoxo