He gave up.. after all of what he has been through, he had to give up.. His family's financial status worsened so he had to care after his other six brothers and his parents who could not work anymore. He soon applied for a job in a respectable firm and he was assigned for a mission in the southern part of the country, so he moved there, kept on sending most of his monthly salary back home leaving little enough for himself to survive and so, he helped funding his younger brothers' education to assure that they wouldn't face as much difficulties as he did during their studies and helped his older brother to finish his engagement arrangements. Surely, it was not much but it holded back his brothers' future from falling apart, therefore, he felt complete satifaction despite the pain that resided his heart, he felt that it was such a wonder that he could survive that much, at least, he could escape a standard future of a peasant's son as a shepherd, proving that it is