[r0naa]

I am so grateful to my parents for putting so much trust in me while I was seemingly going out of control during my teenage years.

Seriously, it took me years but I now realize how much self-control and discipline it took them to stick to their philosophy and let me explore things on my own.

I come from a very middle class background, but I had the chance to experience a lot of things. Some I regret, some I don't. But the important is that I know how it feels, and I know what I don't to be. That's also the very way I found my calling in Computer science, and what drives in life.

They have trust me, when empirical evidence was screaming them not to. That's, I believe, the most beautiful proof of love they have ever gave me.

When my turns come, I hope I will be as good as a parent, as they were to me.

[jschwartzi]

My parents were the same way, but I'm glad they forced me to go to college, at least. At the time it felt like a waste of time, and I had to take a job clerking in a warehouse when I got out because there were no jobs, but I was lucky to have met the person who got me that job, because within four years I was an engineer. I couldn't have done that without an education and a ton of luck.