It would have been very different for me. If you'd never started LTSH, I'd have missed out on discovering a wonderful new hobby and meeting so many wonderful people. And you're a good person. To me that's more important than money or a good job.
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When I was younger my parents used to compare my grades with everyone else's. I don't know what happened to change things, but over the past couple of years they've been more, "You're really smart and a very good writer, and we're proud of you! Now hurry up and write a bestseller!" than "Uncle so-and-so's daughter got this award!". (Once my mother DID say that - a friend's daughter was part of some group that was going to America for some fundraising thing and she'd get to meet Obama - and my father promptly told her to stop comparing because, in his own words, that other girl couldn't write like me and one day Obama would be queuing to shake my hand. I was really embarrassed and sceptical, but also felt very loved.) Dad and my sister were really supportive with my A Level results too, so I was very lucky (I'd been scared that he'd be angry, like he used to be when I was in primary and secondary school, and I still feel I disappointed him).
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Date: 10/5/11 07:14 am (UTC):/
When I was younger my parents used to compare my grades with everyone else's. I don't know what happened to change things, but over the past couple of years they've been more, "You're really smart and a very good writer, and we're proud of you! Now hurry up and write a bestseller!" than "Uncle so-and-so's daughter got this award!". (Once my mother DID say that - a friend's daughter was part of some group that was going to America for some fundraising thing and she'd get to meet Obama - and my father promptly told her to stop comparing because, in his own words, that other girl couldn't write like me and one day Obama would be queuing to shake my hand. I was really embarrassed and sceptical, but also felt very loved.) Dad and my sister were really supportive with my A Level results too, so I was very lucky (I'd been scared that he'd be angry, like he used to be when I was in primary and secondary school, and I still feel I disappointed him).