What do you mean success doesn't come from the want alone? Roman is rather shallow and empty feeling and all the hope and yearning is the only thing that's really in heavy supply. Habits too. The road to anywhere is going to start when he opens his eyes and takes in all he has in himself.

"I think," with the slightest offense to that. "And I think that I could learn way more that isn't in a book. Standardized testing takes up at least a week. Besides, I have cable." Not that all that much time would be devoted to History or Discovery.

"Okay, good. I was hoping this wasn't a ploy for some come to Jesus talk about direction or something." Nobody likes that.