If there’s one thing about pain that I’ve learned, it is that it tends to spread itself like a wildfire, burning more fiercely as fuel is gathered. Once a family tree begins to burn, if the flames aren’t halted the cinders will drift off to ignite another. And within these branches, these twigs that’ll easily become firewood, are our individual lives. Personally, I believe that my life’s been very hard. I’ve certainly made plenty of my own mistakes, at no fault of anyone else but me. And yet, there’s plenty I could blame my parents for. Their ignorance, lack of flexibility, and failure to admit their own mistakes.