if the only thing that makes your family happy is seeing you fail, then you're bound to make them mad if you work on whatever you love every day and finally succeed.

my family is going to be so miserable until they decide to be happy for me and what's to come. what I've earned through my own efforts and who I've got in my life to stand in for all the voids they left.

is anything actually better than having a real father figure and a mother figure if you were abandoned or hated by your own?