Looking back on it though I don't know if I really was ready for it. I was doing it just to prove that all the people back home were wrong about me and that I could make something of myself. I was a little too angry and a little too much in a rush to grow up.

[His expression turns sad at the admission. He's not the same boy who ran away from home, even if it wasn't that long ago back in his world. He went through a lot and grew up quick but the people he met in Midgar helped shape him into a better person.]