I Am Sad

Just had a whole fight with my parents. I am never going to be the kid that my parents will be proud of. They're too busy making sure my brother, who steals my parent's money to buy pot, is happy just because he said he wants to be a doctor. That I should be taking classes in my film degree despite that I already graduated. It doesn't matter how much work I do. I am never getting out of the suburbs where I live. It's too expensive to live in all of these city areas. My parents blame me to make themselves feel better instead of the world. They think because I am trying to get internships that I will not survive. Same with me taking English classes online to improve my writing. They don't care. It's never enough. I even have an interview online for a paid virtual internship that I know they won't care about. It's never enough.

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I feel the same way. I feel that the only way mine would show me any respect is to become a parent(middle sis is) or an officer in the military(baby sis is). Finishing my degree and being a writer isn't good enough for them.

JewStar4Life · 31-35, F

Is that what you want to be? A writer?

SW-User

Yes it is. I finished my degree this past december and I got deans list.

JewStar4Life · 31-35, F

@beachgirlx: That's good. In some ways I want to be a writer too. It's not fair that fun careers are either hard to get or you need luck to make a lot of money. I've been applying to writing contests that I haven't heard back from.

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@JewStar4Life: I hope you do.

JewStar4Life · 31-35, F

@beachgirlx: Thank you. I wrote one that I thought was pretty good except for it was my first paper doing footnotes and by the time I realized how to do it, I already submitted it. Hopefully that is something they would be willing to overlook. According to Submittable, the paper is still in progress. I'll take it as a good sign that it hasn't been declined yet.

SW-User

Good.