[It doesn't really occur that he did the comparison. Or maybe he realized, but doesn't have the strength to really get flustered about it. Either way, he just sighs, feeling comforted by the hand in his hair.]

I'm trying to accept that. I really am. I want to stop constantly feeling like I'm not enough as I am, when I'm actually more than that.

[He laughs too, a little.]

Not that I want to go back to being as cocky as I was in training.