If I were you,
You're not.
I'd get a job and focus on getting through university
Then wind up at a dead end job, in an unhappy marriage and with kids you couldn't afford to raise.
I know your decisions
I don't want to make the same mistakes.
I had hoped you wanted better for me.
I wouldn't be so quick to judge, if I were you.
you're not me
and I'll never be you.
explain?
ReplyDeleteThe bold is my dad, the italisized is me. The bold AND italisized is both my dad and my thoughts. the very end is just the truth that we're different people and that's basically the 'bottom line.'
ReplyDeleteI was telling him about my idea to go to Africa for a year.
He tells me to focus on University so that I don't make a mistake ill regret, but I think that theres more to life than that and that if I follow what he did (go to school, get a job, no travelling) then I WILL have regrets.
He decided to go to school right away and maybe he's happy with where he's at, but I'm not sure if I want to end up in his shoes, therefore resent his condenscending attitude to my ideas of what might make me happy. In our conversation, neither understood where the other person was coming from but we were being judgemental.
make sense?