How do you feel when you are disappointing your parents?

How do you overcome it?

I tried to please my dad so hard but once I fall, I was labelled as failed.

No one wants to disappoint their parents but sometimes they pushed too much over the limit.

I'm not sure how does he see me now. He seems despise me.

I wanna leave him but, he is not healthy. He always got hospitalised.

I wanna look after him, but the words he projected to me like he wants me vanish.

I feel bad, angry and sad. I'm so messed up.

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redeem26 · 36-40, M

This is a difficult question to answer. The fact of the matter is your parents and you will never see eye to eye, nor will they think like you do. If you disappoint them, yet are doing something you enjoy, then that's not you failing to live up to their expectations, that's them failing to understand the things that make you happy.

There will always be some friction there. Parents (good ones at least) will always be worried about their children long into adulthood, however many can't see past the stage where they were regulating your life, and attempt to do so at every turn. That doesn't make them bad parents, they just don't know any other way of being supportive.