>>211869120I was not even 8 anon, how would I've known that or argued it? I slavishly followed whatever they wanted. I begged them for books and they'd never buy me anything. I had a big mythology book and an old Robinson Crusoe and 20,000 Leagues with ripped pages that I found in the storage room. I'd read them over and over again because I had nothing else. I asked for books with dragons and the only book they ever bought me was about some Chinese dragon and some little poverty stricken girl that was part x of y series or something. My mother had a library filled with things like Garcia Marquez and Paohlo Coehlo, then accused me of never being interested in reading when she wouldn't even buy me the Odyssey. It's a miracle they let me buy comic books at least... It's why I'm very attached to capeshit, much as I hate it now, it's always been my only friend.
The piano thing stings the most, personally. I had genuine talent there. Not enough to be a professional or anything, but it was something I liked and was good at. Through it I'd have learned discipline and to study myself, I'd have made different friends, everything would've been different. I'd have had a hobby that I was good at. I would've been complete. Now all I've got is... nothing. Everything went wrong.