Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : Our school has this contest for kids in the Creative Writing class. The winner gets a scholarship. The topic was someone that inspired us. It couldn’t be anybody related such as mom or dad but it could be a friend or famous person.

There’s no one that inspires me. Not anyone famous or anything. I don’t have any friends and I didn’t know what to write about. That’s why I really hate writing prompts that aren’t fiction and have to be personal. 

I considered picking a random famous person but then that would require me to do research because we had to describe their qualities in detail and stuff. I’m lazy and didn’t want to do research.

So during lunch the day it was due I completely made up a story about how my mom’s friend died of cancer at age 29 and she inspired me because she fought hard, and taught me to not take life for granted and value the life you have because it’s short and can end soon.  It was really cliche.

Fast forward a few days when the teacher read and graded them all. She talked to me about how much she liked it and how I didn’t win but it was still really good. She said it really hit close to home because her grandma died of cancer and teared up a bit. 

I didn’t know she would take it like that. It was just some thrown together bs I came out with at last minute.

Anyways I ended up telling my mom about it, god knows why, and she was like,”What the fuck is wrong with you? You don’t make up shit like that.” I didn’t think I did anything wrong until she reacted like that. Am I an asshole for doing this?