Live long enough

you will embrace the abhorrent
accept the repugnant
revel in the disgusting
and accept the inexcusable

and when you have learned to love what you once hated
pursue what you once shunned
aspire to what you loath
and embrace your inadequacies

When you can rationalize giving up on all that you once held dear,
in order to become the person you have always despised...

Then, and only then,
will you be a man.