You often think you can control your own life, but what if one day, a person comes in and upsets your entire balance? This is what will happen to Tobias Lee, a lonely boy who is about to be overwhelmed by something unexpected, without being able to...
Life is so unpredictable. When you get used to her, here she changes the cards in play, changes and upsets everything making you lose the few certainties you had accumulated over time. And you know, change scares everyone, because you can't predict the consequences, the effects. One thing is certain, life surprises and can reveal the real you by any means. What if this medium was a person? One day someone comes in and turns everything upside down and you're totally involved in it that you can never get out of it, no matter how hard you try. You're trying to control her, but can you really control love?
I'm Tobias Lee and this is my life.
Since I was a child I have always tried to discover the world that surrounded me. I read and inquired, I believed that only so I could control everything. I wanted to be able to do everything, to solve everything. I didn't want to let my life decide for me anymore, because it had already decided to take away my dearest thing, my mother. I was just standing there and I couldn't do anything. To see my mother suffer from that disease, to see the doctors unable to do anything because it was too late, to look at my father's empty gaze and I there to feel the impotence in my hands. All this because I let life catch me unprepared, but it will never happen again and I won't let it hurt me.
I was only 9 years old when I made the decision to become a doctor, not one of those who surrenders, but one who is capable of making the impossible possible. The years that followed were silent. Yes, silent is the word that best described them.
My dad locked himself in his job, he wouldn't even go home to sleep, he was always on the road, and the only relationship he had with me was two calls a month, one to find out if I was studying, the other to inform me that he had deposited the money. I had to learn to survive on my own, but luckily there were books I could learn from.
I liked school, I was the first in everything, but I hated when professors tried to play favorites with me because of my father's work. You were an important person, but I was not him and I tried to distinguish myself to make everyone understand that I was able to do anything only with my own strength. Friends? I didn't need them, I didn't need them. I only saw them as useless individuals to achieve my goal. Relatives? I didn't need them, they weren't necessary. After my mother's death and my father's isolation from me, I decided to take away anyone I had a connection to, I didn't need their compassionate gaze.
You'll think "poor thing, it's lonely." But I'm not sad, I don't suffer loneliness. I'm just fine. Everything else is just a side dish. I don't need it, it's not necessary.
TOBIAS LEE
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Hi everyone, this is a translation of the story that I am also writing in Italian. I hope I don't make too many mistakes and that everything is fine.
