okay this is more of a rant than anything to be honest. im just really emotional right now. 🥹

i was talking to someone explaining the plot of the odyssey and then i find out they don’t know Anything about greek mythology. halfway through explaining that, they asked me how do i even know all this? and i was like all thanks to percy jackson.

anyways, i got up and pulled out my pjo series. i have this little habit of writing down the dates i got the book, started it and finished it. and in this one, i got the book on 8th august 2015 and finished it on 11th august 2015. it’s coincidentally 8th august 2026 today. 11 years ago exactly i started this series.

that’s not why im crying right now (although the realization as i typed it made me cry harder). english isn’t really my first language and this is tmi, i was bullied a Lot for it, teachers and peers alike. i had a lot of learning disabilities growing up and still do but managing it pretty well.

so while i was going through the first couple pages, i had underlined words and phrases and sentences i didn’t understand and one of them was the Met Museum. i didn’t know what it was back then and i didn’t have 24/7 access to the internet given i was a teen and not allowed to own a phone, so i had underlined it to search for in a dictionary.

11 years later, i open the book again to see the met museum underlined and to think, i went from searching it in a dictionary to actually having visited it and seen everything is making me bawl my eyes out. to see that i’ve underlined words like cripple or why is a peanut butter and ketchup sandwich combo supposed to be disgusting (i didn’t know what peanut butter was, it’s not a thing where im from) all to search it up in the dictionary back then to improve my english to having experienced all of that. i don’t know why that’s making me cry so much. words i didn’t understand back then and now i casually use them in everyday conversations. i worked So Hard to better myself and just seeing the starting point is making me cry so much. (they’re happy tears i think). 🥹🥹

im not even sure if this is relevant here but i just needed to rant about this somewhere. 😭🥹

okay this is more of a rant than anything to be honest. im just really emotional right now. 🥹

i was talking to someone explaining the plot of the odyssey and then i find out they don’t know Anything about greek mythology. halfway through explaining that, they asked me how do i even know all this? and i was like all thanks to percy jackson.

anyways, i got up and pulled out my pjo series. i have this little habit of writing down the dates i got the book, started it and finished it. and in this one, i got the book on 8th august 2015 and finished it on 11th august 2015. it’s coincidentally 8th august 2026 today. 11 years ago exactly i started this series.

that’s not why im crying right now (although the realization as i typed it made me cry harder). english isn’t really my first language and this is tmi, i was bullied a Lot for it, teachers and peers alike. i had a lot of learning disabilities growing up and still do but managing it pretty well.

so while i was going through the first couple pages, i had underlined words and phrases and sentences i didn’t understand and one of them was the Met Museum. i didn’t know what it was back then and i didn’t have 24/7 access to the internet given i was a teen and not allowed to own a phone, so i had underlined it to search for in a dictionary.

11 years later, i open the book again to see the met museum underlined and to think, i went from searching it in a dictionary to actually having visited it and seen everything is making me bawl my eyes out. to see that i’ve underlined words like cripple or why is a peanut butter and ketchup sandwich combo supposed to be disgusting (i didn’t know what peanut butter was, it’s not a thing where im from) all to search it up in the dictionary back then to improve my english to having experienced all of that. i don’t know why that’s making me cry so much. words i didn’t understand back then and now i casually use them in everyday conversations. i worked So Hard to better myself and just seeing the starting point is making me cry so much. (they’re happy tears i think). 🥹🥹

im not even sure if this is relevant here but i just needed to rant about this somewhere. 😭🥹

okay this is more of a rant than anything to be honest. im just really emotional right now. 🥹

i was talking to someone explaining the plot of the odyssey and then i find out they don’t know Anything about greek mythology. halfway through explaining that, they asked me how do i even know all this? and i was like all thanks to percy jackson.

anyways, i got up and pulled out my pjo series. i have this little habit of writing down the dates i got the book, started it and finished it. and in this one, i got the book on 8th august 2015 and finished it on 11th august 2015. it’s coincidentally 8th august 2026 today. 11 years ago exactly i started this series.

that’s not why im crying right now (although the realization as i typed it made me cry harder). english isn’t really my first language and this is tmi, i was bullied a Lot for it, teachers and peers alike. i had a lot of learning disabilities growing up and still do but managing it pretty well.

so while i was going through the first couple pages, i had underlined words and phrases and sentences i didn’t understand and one of them was the Met Museum. i didn’t know what it was back then and i didn’t have 24/7 access to the internet given i was a teen and not allowed to own a phone, so i had underlined it to search for in a dictionary.

11 years later, i open the book again to see the met museum underlined and to think, i went from searching it in a dictionary to actually having visited it and seen everything is making me bawl my eyes out. to see that i’ve underlined words like cripple or why is a peanut butter and ketchup sandwich combo supposed to be disgusting (i didn’t know what peanut butter was, it’s not a thing where im from) all to search it up in the dictionary back then to improve my english to having experienced all of that. i don’t know why that’s making me cry so much. words i didn’t understand back then and now i casually use them in everyday conversations. i worked So Hard to better myself and just seeing the starting point is making me cry so much. (they’re happy tears i think). 🥹🥹

im not even sure if this is relevant here but i just needed to rant about this somewhere. 😭🥹