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[–] 2 pts

No diaries, so here are some stories:

Before she was married, she was a bit of a bad ass. Drove motorcycles around, smoked and drank (duh, she's fucking Irish afterall). She died when I was about 7 or so, and due to my family moving around like a gypsy jn the army, I only met her a few times when she was in her late 90s. She lived with a boyfriend (outlived 2 husbands) and would still go out for daily walks to buy groceries and cook what they needed. On one of those walks when she was about 97 or so (she lived to be 99, her boyfriend made it to 103) she walked past a group of teenage girls (my mom was with her and witnessed this) and the girls started pointing at my great gran and laughing at her. My great gran stopped, told them they were all cunts, and threatened to thump em with her cane. They laughed, told my great gran she was "allright" and then walked her and my mom back to my great grans place, laughing and talking with her the whole time.

I am capable of GREAT anger, and I probably got it from her. Thankfully I learned how to tame the anger, so I don't have to fly off the handle like she did.

[–] 0 pt

I get the anger. Every bit of that felt like an obituary and I get that based on my own familial experience. We don't all get born 'little princes'. Would be nice if guys like us did tho.

[–] 1 pt

I'm glad for every hardship I have ever been through, if it wasn't for all of those lessons, and building strength from going through shit, I might have been weak and succumbed to getting the Vax. I believe that overcoming challenges in our formative years is what sets us up for success in our adult years. I always remember this one guy from cooking class in grade 7 (we didn't choose it, everyone had to cycle through all such classes that year). Me and another fairly normal guy we paired with this unknown loser of a guy. His hair was always messy, his clothes look like they were fished out of a discount bin, and later learned that his dad had left him and his mom. The first day of that class, the teacher told us we're going to make grilled cheese sandwiches. That weird kid turned on the element, put a pan on and threw some cheese directly onto the pan. Me and the other normal guy got loud and start asking "what the hell are you doing"? His answer "grilling the cheese". The teacher came over, told that guy to wash the pan and took us two aside and said "sorry about that, I get the feeling that his mom does everything for him, so he never learned how to do anything, please watch out for him as if he were a little kid".

These days most kids are like that kid and I think it is because the parents raising them never try and teach their kids stuff all the time. They fully fail to get that a good parent teachers their kids how to do everything that the parents can do, plus some more things that the kid will be able to do that the parent can't.

While it would be nice to have been born into great wealth, and managed to keep it throughout life, having gone through shit means we know how to get back up after being knocked down, and keep going j til we get what we want. The kids born into wealth never have to try, or struggle, so if something threatened their way of life, they don't know how to face it head on.

[–] 1 pt

I'm glad for every hardship I have ever been through

forged not fictitious

this is the way