You won't be able to accomplish anything in life sitting around all day behind a computer doing nothing, is what my mother said to me when I was alive.

  She was right.

  I was nothing more than just another degenerate shut-in who's obsessed with anime and games. My life revolves around eating, sleep, watching anime, and play my favorite games all day long.

  Rinse and repeat.

  Unproductive. I often scream and yell at her over the smallest thing which I thought was significant, but it was not.

  What have I become, is what I asked myself when the reality hits me.

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  I wanted to change myself there and then, but it was too late.

  It was obesity. On the age of 21, my birthday, I received my final gift from the person I hurt the most. It was the new game I wanted.

  At that moment, I kept asking myself why.

  Why would she care about me still?

  I never got the chance… to know the answer, as I hushed my final breath a minute after.

  For the first time, I feel anger.

  Similar to when I missed an important event in a video game, but so much more.

  I knew what I have missed.

  For so long, I adored the quality of a story in many mediums I enjoy. Whether it's games, movies, or anime.

  I wanted it.

  What I love the most, stories about a family.

  I longed for it.

  I didn't know that, I had it all along. The warmth of a loving mother, the hardworking father, and yet… I wasted it all.

  For so many years, I agonized because no one knows that I existed… but I am.

  To them.

  If only I can have the second chance to fix it all, I will do everything right, for my life is not mine alone.