Hey, thanks for your two cents. I always appreciate outside perspective, especially with things I don't know or understand well. Living in the modern world, with taxes and the like, is among those things. Don't worry about any freaking typos: you can say best things with sub-par language. How it came to be is a short story. I was raised by parents whose main concern was to accomplish things through me rather than accepting the fact that with their lives they screwed up (nothing quite satisfying or happiness-inducing to their names, leading to constant dissatisfaction with life). "Helicoptering", basically. They protected me from most possible harm, which, from their perspective, includes stunting my personal growth because it might include rocks I can stumble upon and get a boo-boo. They live - and made me live - by the assumption that the only acceptable kind of growth is the safe kind, which, you may know from personal experience, is not the case.