It's Okay To Be Yourself

Chapter 2: Tradition

Jiro's POV:
I woke up in a cold sweat.. it was all just a dream... I chuckled to myself, I should've known that it was a dream, my parents would never act like that towards me... or at least that's what I kept telling myself, but a part of me thought they hated me...

You see my great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather lived in a depressing time. There was no happiness, no colour, nothing, like everything was always in black and white.

Then one day, he met the love of his life, but he had trouble expressing his feelings, and back then no one knew how to read or write, so he was gonna give up, but as he was walking, he noticed all the noise around him and how it could be used as a way to express his love for his future wife.

So he made a song for her, the first love song, heck, the first song ever and he started to make all kinds of songs all in different genres, but his favourite genre was pop rock, which is why it's most common in the family.

Then, when he and his wife finally got together and had children, they made it a tradition that everyone born in the Jiro family would have to become a musician, and that the default would be pop rock.

Now, you're probably wondering why I didn't become a musician, and it's not because I hate the idea of being a musician or I was really bad at the pop rock genre.

In fact, I really liked the idea of being a musician and I was good at the pop rock genre too, but I just liked the idea of becoming a hero better.

When I first told my parents this, I thought they would be disappointed that I choose to be a hero and not a musician, which has been in the family for generations, but it was the opposite actually.

They told me that as long as I'm happy there happy and that being a hero, is a lot like being a musician. Which made me feel better.

Now you're probably wondering why I'm even thinking that my parents hate me even though I said that they told me they didn't.

Well, it's because I secretly thought that they were just telling me that to make me feel better, but in reality, they were actually really disappointed in me.