the man/boy who sat still...
And so it was that the man/boy learned something.
It wasn't a lesson that the other people usually took away from something like this. Usually, they'd just try again.
Naturally, for someone trying so hard not to be the same, trying so hard not to be different, he would take away something else.
That someone/thing wasn't for him.
The man/boy decided then that maybe there wasn't really anyone/thing suitable for him. Maybe it wouldn't matter if there was anyone/thing that was. Lessons learned are rarely free, he told himself. He did not feel like he could afford any more.
Maybe for someone so different and the same, the man/boy had best go everywhere/nowhere.
So the man/boy decided to sit still forever. In that, he may finally find the place where he could be where he was supposed to go.
