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I'm a product of lax parents—and it can be argued that the situation overall was neglectful—and in my case you have a chronic and indifferent underachiever.
However, I'd like to see more balance than the OP list allows. Why only the piano or violin? What's wrong with sports and drama?
Sometimes I wish my mother were Chinese.
I will now return to ruminating over my wasted potential.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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