Chapter 15.

Act out of conviction, not influence.

Maybe it was the way Derek was making fun of Dominic that gave the whole thing that spontaneous and funny vibe, you could really go back to puberty even though you had already gotten over it a long time ago.

Definitely, to build a beautiful dream the first thing you need is to be awake, aware of what you're doing, not complain to seem tough, maybe things will change a little, maybe not completely, but it's a good way to educate the mind without educating the heart.

Something that can be seen as if the person were not being educated at all, in order to obtain a secret victory, because while it is true that some endings are happy, it is no less true that other endings are necessary, since no one deserves the tears that are shed in secret, but the person who really deserves them may never cry because he only takes into account that there is only one success, which is to live life your way, at ease, feeling resolved, because from life you get what you dare to ask for…

What your child wanted internally is often what your adult cannot get… And for that reason, he is afraid to look back and see that inner child.

Not feeling proud of what he is as an adult, because if he is kind since he was little, life can be a reflection, a mirror, but someone who is marked for a long time cannot look himself in the face and say that he is not a murderer…

He would be deceiving himself by pretending that everything is fine when he knows that it is not the same, because remembering while he turned off the television in his failed relationship with a woman, Dominic let a smile appear when he remembered her words: I have many people behind me, but you are not enough for me.

And now, seeing it from another perspective, he could realize that of course she had many people behind her, because garbage attracts many flies, and no matter how beautiful a snake is, it will never stop being a vile crawler who cannot say things directly to your face because behind a gate it is easy to hear a dog barking; and Derek who returns to the room told him: look, your ex just uploaded a photo with the love of his life, it's funny, because it seems that you like having given away the toys of your youth.

Grimacing, Dominic said: I don't have the need to be concerned about other people's lives, the only one that interests me is to make me jealous and without realizing it I can't understand why I can't have him, to which Derek asked him directly: ¿are you talking about the boy you were watching like a pubescent on the TV?, to which the man said: forget it and let's get out of this place, I don't think I can bear to see your face again without wanting to hit it, so Derek playfully said: yes of course, what you want to hit, but it's that boy's ass, you can't fool me.