my parents are great and if anything i illogically resent them for not prodding me enough to take chances. i hesitate alot on risky decisions because my parents are squares and instilled in me to "take the safe route at all times".
I know it was out of love but man i feel like i have so much catching up to do and im 28.
But heres a story of someone I know who is much less fortunate and who I thought off when i read this thread title.
A friend of mine lives in Birmingham lets call her susie.. Susie went to school, smart pretty girl. Parents never married and has siblings by different fathers....sister on drugs (but has like 4 kids that were put in susies moms name)....brother locked up for murder....so pretty clear that Susies mom while did her best, she couldnt keep all her kids out the streets of Birmingham.....
Not DIRECTLY susies moms fault....but I feel parents do deserve a share of the blame raising kids in destructive environments. Either dont have the fukkin kids or get your money up and fukkin move.
But thats not the end of the story.
Susie graduates schoool is all set to leave Birmingham. But then mom has a stroke. and is now disabled. Cant drive. Cant be left alone for long periods of time. Oh and even better all of susies sisters kids stay with grandma...while susies sister is out in the streets and brother is locked up. No siblings to depend on. All other family has either moved or are too broke to help take care of susies mom.
So now susie is stuck working shyt jobs in birmingham, essentially waiting for her mom to die before she can really move on.
And shes' a better person than me because id wake up every day resenting the fukk outta my mother.