Kieran is bursting with gifts; exuberance, enthusiasm, joy, zeal, intelligence and generosity. Patience, however isn't a native plant to his "soil". 

Enter ice cream. He loves ice cream, but it betrays him. Watching him eat ice cream is to watch a drama unfold. He goes from agony to ecstasy and back again. He’s doesn’t know how to savor a pleasure, just how to devour it, and can’t (or won’t pace) himself to avoid the infamous "brain freeze".