A Complex Determination

When a child's parents tell that child to keep his or her hands to him or herself there is a certain complex determination born in the child's soul.
It is the combined desire to control him or herself to the point of obeisance and to secretly plan on waiting for the propitious moment to challenge the respected authority and find out, via practical experience, just why he or she was told to behave. Not to mention what might happen in the event of rebellion.

It might be said that this same complex determination is what matures to become nationalism, corporate loyalty, or dare I suggest religion. One is compelled to find a set of standards, a concise methodology for proper existence. But it is tinged with the notion of rebellion, the desire to dance on the wild side and challenge what one has chosen to embrace.