Lemurick pt8

Lemurick stayed in the city for two years. At one year, eleven months and ten days Lemurick finally told his friend "no" and for once, stayed home. He needed to think. Lemuirck was a little afraid he would be able to anymore, all the hats had played with his mind, and it hurt so much to think. He forced himself consider what his life had become. He pondered what he had learned from the citypeople and FairweatherFriend: 1. he learned that no one really cares for you, you have to take what you can get. 2. Worrying about hurting other people will only give them an advantage to hurt you, so beat them to it. 3. Happiness is not free. 4. Happiness is bought at the Hat House. 5. Love is passing and will almost never last more than a night. 6. Friends are only friends as long as they get something out of your friendship. 7. And no one wants to be friends with a poor man. Lemurick was very tired. He worked a dead-end job to be able to stay in a crummy room and eat enough food to live. What ever else he made was spent entirely on hats and parties to forget his terrible life. But every morning he would wake up and reality would still be there. Finally he gave up working and started stealing so that he could forgo reality completely. He had only been caught once and spent a three months in prison. After than Lemurick went back to the cycle of working and forgetting. It would all be bearable if I had someone to share this with, he had rationalized. But he could never find a girl who would stay by him, and though he had had his share of relationships, they had all ended terribly, leaving him more dazed and bitter than before. He finally realized that he had nothing to share. How could he invite someone to join in this awful life? Lemurick was utterly depressed. And this is where we find him, pondering the out come of his life and what he has gained thus far. A complete failure was all Lemurick could use to describe his life. He resolved to make something of himself. He would pull himself up by the boot strings and become a self-made success. Twenty days after this conclusion, without so much as a note good bye, Lemurick collected his few belongings and headed off in the direction that looked most successful. There was a look of determination on his face and a spring in his step.