Self-realization sounds good. But what if only an enraged dwarf emerges?
Babies and the old are permitted self-absorption. In between, it provokes resentment.
Originality finds the unexpected but inevitable next step.
Early every morning an old woman goes to the market to curse a grocery clerk, who curses back.
Fame now wears the halo that once crowned holiness.
More are weakened than strengthened by their troubles.