I'd say a low self-esteem, and the boy _needs_ to lack one. I've found it better that way: in lacking an predefined opinion of yourself, you know nothing but what you've done. in that way, you have no qualms about doing or feeling or thinking anything, and worried only about the `can's and the `who's and the `how's.
when you've stopped worrying about loving yourself, your free to go about loving everyone else.
(but then, I may be full of shit, and thinking too hard about a strange humanistic concept; judge harshly ;-)
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branchandroot
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Date: 2002-10-14 08:14 am (UTC)when you've stopped worrying about loving yourself, your free to go about loving everyone else.
(but then, I may be full of shit, and thinking too hard about a strange humanistic concept; judge harshly ;-)