Ripple

This world demanded a heart of steel, power was everything meanwhile having mercy was considered a weakness

Today, he had affected a family of two, a mother and her deadbeat child.

But what about tomorrow?

He would affect more than just one family, and the effect would ripple through lives on a wavelength that many would not like.

"Breaking now would mean never reaching the top," he thought, his mind sharp and cold.

If a single family's pain was enough to shake him, if the sorrow of one old blind woman could make him falter… then he would never make it.

Noah knew that his ambitions; the power, the status. They all required him to have one goal and only one goal in mind. 

To dominate, and not care about the consequences as long as it didn't affect him or the people around him.

His will must be strong and sturdy, like iron. He couldn't falter, it would only ruin him psychologically.