Does No One Wonder Why

Why…

I didn’t get a job till almost a year after i Graduated High School?

I didn’t learn to drive till I was 29? 

Didn’t have sex till I was 30?

Move out till I was 32?

There was no encouragement there. No support. If anything, we were supposed to support them. 

There was no College Fund. No First Car with a Bow on it. Nothing. There was nothing. 

The dynamic was stifling.

It was like living in a Black Hole. With no way out. No end in sight. A Living Depression. 

I was not going to be her. My cousin. The same thing happened to her. She died there. Literally.