Why be a Prodigy?

Jing-Mei's mother believe that they are in the land, the land where people could be whatever they want to be. America was her dream and ahse wish to open new land for her daughter. Jing-Mei was excited at first too about the dream of being a prodigy. She wanted to get her parent's approval and tried her best to do it. My mom and dad doesn't actually press me on anything hard. They mumbles around my ear everyday abut getting striaght As at first and I'm also trying my best. My mom and dad just kept on talking to me that i need to work harder and umbles aorund my ears everyday. After a long time, i got really fed up and was angry for them to putting so many invisible barrier pressure on me and they just kept on saying look at the other people outside. She kind of just constantly using people from the local school on how many after school academies they have to go and how i don't have to do anything. When i compare my friends to me, they always use the excuse" don't use the people let's bad around, you are you, they are they don't compare" It just pissed me off. Last year was when there are most fights because they think i don't have any homework. We shouted to each other almost everyday and when i go back to see my dad i'm pretty much scared if we will get into a brawl. The only people that could listen to my complains was my aunt and she took it all in and act like a messenger to dilever my messgaes. After half a year my dad finally decide to stop the mumbling and let go. However my mom didn't and she just constantly mumble until i was so angry one day i left the house for the whole day until 1 then i went back home. It really bugged me and now this year the homework load is four times more they stopped mumbling about my homeworks. I push myself in things that they didn't push such as taekwando, i went into a few competitions and went into the champions class for my own good. I normally pushes myself on work but they were just paranoid on A and didn't see it, like they want me to do just more and more. Last year was a very tiring period since my mom and dad changes plan everyday such as shutting down the internetm took the tv away from my small room and leave no entertainment to me. It's not as bizarre as the tests that Jing Mei's mom give but it acts like a invisible tense atmosphere around the house and i wanted to escape it whenever i go back to taipei. The life of Jing Mei is really sad, and even though my mom slips all kinds of activities such as going out with friends to me but when the people say yes and the mood says no, it actually feels more tense and sad when you disobey them. In the end me and my parents decided that i can't be push by them like that and it will just crush the family. They loosen up, and now I can finally work regularly again. Jing Mei's story kind of touch what happened to me last year and i was kind of touched and this journal write kind of opened up the feeling and i just wrote all this.