Discovering Infinity

We rarely find ourselves truly happy since we struggle so much. Life seems extremely stormy and frightening for the most of us. There are people that we hate, financial struggles, our flaws—it just seems like the entire world has been built to put us down.
I used to believe that—and I still do. Its a fact that 99% of the people we will meet in our entire lives will turn their backs on us when we need their help.
My name is Akira Hisaki and I am fifteen years old. I fall in the 1% of the global population—no, not for being a saint! I am a stutterer.
I have never felt words are for me. They just seem to be flying away from me, sending me running across infinite lengths to catch them. Words seem like the stars and the infinite galaxies to me; distant and priceless.
This used to be my side of the world. The skies were always cloudy and it used to rain frequently. The buildings were grey and there were several roads, winding themselves into a heap of confusion.
I had been stuck in that world for as long as I could remember, until, one day, my mother and I decided to venture out into the world and seek a new life.
For once, I felt I had left those grey streets behind and had entered a world as dramatic and vast as the Cosmos itself. Well, that didn't mean things got better, you know...