Father must have expected this day would come since he had reacted calmly to my deviant behaviour. I also shed tears of emotion that night as I realized I had been too ignorant of my parents’ love. As my father said, I was their only son who had lived under the same roof as them. My parents must have contemplated how to raise a child who was superior to other kids in terms of physical and intellectual development. I could only assume from the pictures since I had skipped the ‘tutorial’ of my youth, but my parents had done so many things for me.

The next day, my mother took out a photo album after my father went to work. She turned over the pages while talking about old stories, and I saw that I grew up fast. Although I was standing in the last row, I was the tallest in my elementary school’s first year. There was another picture of young me wearing...