Have you ever tried stalking a bear?!? It's pretty dangerous country out there - you'd have to disguise yourself as a former nice guy for one thing - how would you do that?
"A man can be destroyed but not defeated" - from The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway.
Which I take to mean that every man has within him a spirit of relentlessness and optimism. Its already there; he just has to cultivate it.
Hmmm...you must not know me very well just yet...I am the kid who used to walk directly into the principal's office to tell him about it if I didn't like something. Bears actually cower and run at the sight of me. The devil himself showed up on my doorstep one day, and I told him to go to hell. He cried like a sissy and ran home.
Hey DQ - You just reminded me. I used to confound my elementary school teachers. When they would send me to the principal's office, I would tell them that he was lonesome and needed some company. I actually liked my visits with him he was fun to talk to.
