My cousin is showing signs of a gift similar to my own in both scope and magnitude… except that this time, I’m here to train him. It will be interesting to see what happens. Will he grow up stronger for the help, I wonder, or has poor training become such an inextricable aspect of my own character that it can no longer be parsed out from what I’ve accomplished? Will someone who is given more be motivated to do less by sheer necessity?

I hope he’ll be more well-adjusted, at least. Aid of any form should help prevent an adversarial view of the world from forming, but perhaps he’ll end up out-of-step as well when he sees how much apathy and incompetence contrast his own vision and ability, regardless of having someone to fall back on.

If he continues as he is progressing now, he will certainly accomplish great things.