When I was young, my friends and cousins would usually make fun of me for being so small.
Also whenever they wanted to get me to do something I didn’t want to do, they would call me a chicken and then I would prove that I could do whatever.
I guess I stepped up to most challenges except for the time when they dared me to go down this steep hill on my bike. My one cousin ended up doing it for real and he got severely injured and had to be rushed to the hospital. I couldn’t believe that it could have been me who was injured like that and honestly if he didn’t land the right way, he could have been killed too. I remember visiting our cousin in that hospital where they kept the AC system blasting like crazy. Our cousin was miserable the whole time and kept complaining about the air conditioning being on too high. He swore those doctors were torturing him with the AC system on purpose, but they claimed it was policy to help prevent the spread of pathogens. When I was older, my cousins all said they were going to different colleges and if I was smart, I would too. I didn’t want to go to a regular college, and I honestly didn’t know what I wanted to do at first. One friend of mine told me he was going to an HVAC trade school though, and that sounded interesting. Even when my cousins said I was chicken for not going to a regular college, I proved to them once again that I would come up with an appropriate move of my own. I went to become a qualified HVAC professional and I have been making big money ever since.