To be better than your parents...(a random dialog i made up out of randomness)

boy1: I want to be better than my parents. I'll strive to best

them in the things they do.

boy2: why would you want that?

boy1: because, i want to be the best kind of son they could

possibly have. the perfect son.

boy2: you think competing with them is the way to do it?

boy 1: yes. wouldn't you like it too, if your son, took you

and your wife's greatest skills, assests, abilities, values

and morals, and made it better than what you have? i will be

the best of what my parents are. that way, i will be the

perfection of the things that make them proud to be

themselves. i will be better than them. even though it is

impossible...

boy2: impossible...? why so?

boy1: tell me my friend, how could you ever best the woman,

who carried you in her womb, while loving and caring for

something she has yet to know? how can you top her infinite

patience in putting you to sleep and holding you in her arms,

smiling even though you're really a burden to her normal

living? how can i ever beat the man who's wisdom and love made

you to be? whose undying perseverance to work and provide you

with life and future gave him deep lines across his face, with

much sweat and blood? can you overcome him, who laughs with

you and teaches you life while braving all manner of

unpleasantries in the world of money and vice?

boy2: ...

boy1: the fact that you and i still live speaks of our

parents' greatness. i ask you my friend, can you ever be

better than the very people who made you to be as great as you

are, or will be? i know of no such possibility.

boy2: then why say that you want to be greater than them

though it is but mere folly?

boy1: in trying to be the best of what they are, i would be

the fulfillment of their lives. i want to give them cause for

pride. in trying to best them, i would have at least repaid in

some small manner the great sacrifice that made me. i owe them

as much....