The thing that bothers me, is when parents get on and tell how their kids aren't living Godly life, and what not. I think its cool that they do, but the advice pisses me off. Whats wrong with letting people live their life without having others beat them over the head with the Bible?
My parents did the exact same thing, I wanted to go out and grow as a person into who I was. However they wanted to stunt my growth as a person, so they sent me to a non denominational christian school for 1 year. At the school, they tried the same thing, to shove their ideas of right and wrong down peoples throat, if you didn't share their exact beliefs then you were just wrong, and I hated it.
After I turned 18, my parents asked my to leave, so I did. I told them that I wasn't looking back, there was no coming back for me. I know they didn't believe me, thought that I would come crying home asking for them to take me back and promising to do what they said. However, I went out and was successful, I won't lie, there were mistakes alone the way and it sucked being stuck out by myself during the bad times. Nevertheless, I relied on myself and did what it took to get by.
Now 4 years later, I am in university which I pay for by myself. I work to support myself and I don't owe them anything. I hang out with people that I like to hang out with and enjoy being with. I date girls that I genuinely like, and don't have to worry about someone calling me telling me I should not date non Christians, I like thousands of miles from them. Once in a while I hear from my parents and they say that I should come home and visit, that they want to see the person I have grown into. I just want to laugh, because if they really wanted to be part of my life, they had a chance. The part where they can influence my life, that boat has come and gone. I have grown up into a person and that person's life doesn't include them.
The thing that really bothers me, is that my parents still blame me for all the problems. That pisses me off, and until they apologize there is no room for them in my life. I run into people who try to preach to me, I remember one girl who said, "Chop Sui is so nice but he treats his parents so bad." After I heard that I was pissed. No one ever wanted to hear my side of the story, or hear what I thought of things, they just wanted to hear it from my parents. That holds true even today, people still think that I am in the wrong that I need to apologize for the heart ache that I caused my parents, I just laugh, because its easy to make an assumption about a situation without knowing the whole facts.
My parents did the exact same thing, I wanted to go out and grow as a person into who I was. However they wanted to stunt my growth as a person, so they sent me to a non denominational christian school for 1 year. At the school, they tried the same thing, to shove their ideas of right and wrong down peoples throat, if you didn't share their exact beliefs then you were just wrong, and I hated it.
After I turned 18, my parents asked my to leave, so I did. I told them that I wasn't looking back, there was no coming back for me. I know they didn't believe me, thought that I would come crying home asking for them to take me back and promising to do what they said. However, I went out and was successful, I won't lie, there were mistakes alone the way and it sucked being stuck out by myself during the bad times. Nevertheless, I relied on myself and did what it took to get by.
Now 4 years later, I am in university which I pay for by myself. I work to support myself and I don't owe them anything. I hang out with people that I like to hang out with and enjoy being with. I date girls that I genuinely like, and don't have to worry about someone calling me telling me I should not date non Christians, I like thousands of miles from them. Once in a while I hear from my parents and they say that I should come home and visit, that they want to see the person I have grown into. I just want to laugh, because if they really wanted to be part of my life, they had a chance. The part where they can influence my life, that boat has come and gone. I have grown up into a person and that person's life doesn't include them.
The thing that really bothers me, is that my parents still blame me for all the problems. That pisses me off, and until they apologize there is no room for them in my life. I run into people who try to preach to me, I remember one girl who said, "Chop Sui is so nice but he treats his parents so bad." After I heard that I was pissed. No one ever wanted to hear my side of the story, or hear what I thought of things, they just wanted to hear it from my parents. That holds true even today, people still think that I am in the wrong that I need to apologize for the heart ache that I caused my parents, I just laugh, because its easy to make an assumption about a situation without knowing the whole facts.
