How can you support family members who have made sacrifices for your education, and why is it important to do so?

Have you ever witnessed a situation where the person picked on turned out to be much tougher than they looked? What happened?
I am bored to death by conspiracy theories, as they are like a landscape imagined that, to me, is deadly dull, but to the creators, a constant state of fascination. Am I alone in being bored by conspiracy theories due to their inanity?