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.