First time posting here. Im not entirely sure if this belongs here. (please tell if it does not).

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About a year ago i was obsessed with models of planes and boats. I was just a beginner when my birthday arrived. On that birthday i recieved a large model boat to construct. I was ecstatic. I sat down a week after my birthday and started to build the model. It was way out of my skill level so i gave up. The model was really expensive btw. It was something around 4 000kr (400$).

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Shortly after this my mother started bugging me to finish the set. This kept going on for a few weeks and i started feeling pretty bad for finishing the model. After a while this feeling started to turn into spite so i completely ingored the model.

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My mother then confronted me when she saw i had not worked on the model. The conversation went along about like this: (paraphrasing a bit)

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Mom: Why havent you finished the model?

Me: Well its a bit advanced for me.

Mom: Your cousins paid good money for that model!

Me: I know but i cant finish it even if i tried!

Mom: How do you know that?

(there is a rating on the box of the model for diffuculty 1 - 5. This boat was a 5. Up until this point i had only done 1 and 2.)

Me: There is a diffuculty rating on the box right here scaling 1 - 5. This is a 5!

Mom: Does that stop you from trying?

Me: I guess.

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I never did go back to finish it. I feel like i wasted my cousins time and money to get it for me. So am i the asshole for not finishing the model and essentially wasting my cousins money? The boat the model is based on is called AIDA. Kinda funny huh?