sure, i love my family, but......
By joshdale08
@joshdale08 (2320)
Philippines
February 14, 2008 5:31am CST
other times, i also wish i was alone. no responsibilities, no waking up early in the morning, reading all the books i want to readanytime, anywhere. no body to wrestle the tv remote with, the space in my cabinet, mine alone. no clothes to pick up after, no expenses other than my personal ones, being able to come and go as i want and finally being able toafford a vacation while i'm still young.
sure, i'll get all these when the kids have their own families and have flown the nest already but what the h---! do i have to wait till i'm 50 or 60? do i have to wait for that time when old people don't seem to have a place in society anymore?
3 responses
@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
14 Feb 08
..it all flies by.. incredibly fast.. of course our two kids still live at home! (ages 27 and 25) and now we also have a grand daughter living with us (age 9) but it's good for the three of them.. Our two didn't rush out and fall headlong into the whole peer pressure thing.. well they're into it I guess, but with a little less danger and extremeness, they seem to have come through it ok... At one time our daughter wanted to move to a big city, just her and our granddaughter.. wow, sure glad she got old enough to go to the local taverns and that thought got forgotten.. she was kind of set on it for awhile (yikes!) as she's a real social butterfly and there just is nothing for kids to do.. she's not much of a 'drinker' but she likes to have social places she can see her friends.
- Yes, it's frustrating.. It's good when they get a bit older and you can get away every so often (me and the ole man jump on his harley and speed away..) I always thought, though, that would happen during their teen years... Not! Unless you want to come home later to find there was a big party.. and who know's what..
- These days families are too small and spread out - no babysitters!! and the world is just too danged dangerous.. no I don't think parents will be relaxing any time soon.. er, guess I likely didn't cheer you up any.. What got me through (besides school and all those hours to do my projects and writing, etc) was a chair in my own little bedroom which sits by the window.. it's my quietness and solitude, time alone place! Where I still steal away to everyday.. (except when I can be outside)
@joshdale08 (2320)
• Philippines
15 Feb 08
i do have my own little nook where i escape to when i need to get away. it's just a small room in the house where we have the computer (it's where i am now) and i just leave the door open, i can just see my kids in the living room. but sometimes, i shut the door, specially when the boys are in thier seemingly, never-ending squabbles. and i pound away at the keys. sometimes, it's just playing with tumblebugs or scrabble. or i sing to an online karaoke site. then, i feel better. like now.
@UntrueLife (503)
• China
14 Feb 08
Hi joshdale.You can't hear anything if you not clam down,just relax,OK? I'm agree with you when i was a kid,sometimes i even hate my family,it's unreal,isn't it?hehe,but i think you should know that will be a great wealth in your life.Don't angry,don't complain etc.Just enjoy this.One day you will say thanks to your family.
@joshdale08 (2320)
• Philippines
15 Feb 08
guess, i shouldn't have opened my mouth when i was at my lowest, huh? it's almost a day now since i last wrote this and i'm feling more "energized" now. i did sound like i was complaining too much, right? sorry guys, this is a lesson for me. no more whining when i'm down in the dumps. gotta calm down first, before i start saying something i'm likely to regret.
@magica (3707)
• Bulgaria
14 Feb 08
It`s normally. Everybody needs some private place only for himself. And sometimes the family members dont understand and respect it. In the families the abuses with place and resources are more then usually, but they dont treat them as abuse and dont aware.
@joshdale08 (2320)
• Philippines
14 Feb 08
know what? that's so true! and it's just so frustrating! specially when you try to explain how you feel, and nobody just gets it! makes me wanna pull out all my hair! grrr!
