D.R.FARR (b. 1988) Guildford, UK

In primary school; someone once asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.

We were playing a game in the playground where the goal was to avoid stepping on the cracks on a slabbed pavement.

I can remember it vivdly.

My answer was:

"I want to be a Pirate."

I'm not sure what I meant when giving this answer at the time.
It would have been around the time film 'Hook' came out which might have influenced why I had said that.

There are two defininitions of the word pirate:

a person who attacks and robs ships at sea.

a person who appropriates or reproduces the work of another for profit without permission, usually in contravention of patent or copyright.

The response I recieved when I gave my answer was:

"Pirates don't exist"

This isn't true.

Pirates did exist, they still do.

There's probably more pirates existing now than ever.