To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle.
People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.