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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: (e) on March 04, 2003, 05:20:26 PM
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My uncle, being the baseball, basketball, football, hockey coach, and all around coachy person just called me.
He has a son, Eric my cousin who I am really close with, and talk to him alot on MSN. He is one of those father idol\'s the kid who excels in everything, and my Uncle thinks I should do the same and keep the tradition of a sport orientated child. I apparently have the stuff, but I dont want to.
He thinks everything I do, everything, from playing drums, to the music I listen to, Skateboarding, the way I dress, act, talk, and all around carry myself is just all around not mainstream. I told him its how I act, and how I act is how I want to act and just be.
He then says He\'s going to talk to my mom and have her talk to me. About WHAT?!?! I am seriously sick of shit from him and am seriously fed up.
The only problem though its my mothers brother, and she was also one of the sport oriented kid, Rugby Captain (yes rugby), Football Cheerleader, Swim Team Captain, Track and Field champion, and even tutor back in highschool. She thinks I am also just a \'\'bum with nothing coming to me\'\'.
She knows I have friends, and likes them. But wants me to expand, I am fed up with all of this. But I dont know what to do, I dont want to tell them they are totally wrong, and just plain out be blantanly ignorant.
Help would be appreciated. I am really pissed :rpissed:
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okay tell him to "suck me, you stupid jock. "
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This is a problem, why?
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I take it your a jock.
Do you know what its like to have to have your closest uncle call you up, every day asking you if you have tried out for track, or football, and just insulting everything about you.
Vapor imagine this; Coming home, your mom just flat outs tells you she hates you, that she thinks your not worthy to be her son. Vapor something like this isnt worth ignoring. Esp when your parents are going through a divorce.
If you dont hae something positive to say, shut the **** up.
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Ahh, teen angst. I got a shit load of that right here.
Eh, it\'ll probably pass. I just don\'t wanna tell you something really corny.
I\'d just tell \'em off, it sounds like he\'s bein a dick.
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i know what your feeling man, trust me.
it has alot to do with your age. being young as you are makes you seem impressionable.
just stick to your guns dude, be the person YOU want to be.
as long as your a good person and your happy with yourself, thats all that matters.
seriously i could spurt out about 500 cliches here that would all be true but you get the point.
i was a skater back in high school... im talking back when NOBODY was a skater... i had a nosering about 8 years before it got "popular"...
anyways, i know what your going through.
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I don\'t mean to insult your family, since I don\'t even know them. Obviously it can\'t really be a valid insult if I don\'t know them....
But even stupid people can be uncles and mothers. Doesn\'t mean they\'re bad, just maybe not too bright, or not very experienced with the range of behaviors that humans are permitted to have. Nerds and antisocial loners will always grow up to be the rich powerful people who will then laugh at the brain dead jocks all the way to the bank. That\'s what I did. It\'s a fact of life, and if your family doesn\'t know it by now, there\'s no way you can teach it to them.
Just consider this something you have to survive until you can get the hell away from them. :)
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Listen, parents most of the time suck. Do what YOU want to do, and don\'t be a jock, cause jock are moron zombies controlled by the sports/school system! Revolt! lol
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I\'d say is when they confront you (or you can confront them first), tell them that you\'re just not as sportsy (if that\'s a word) as they are. Tell them, that although you\'d like to continue the "family tradition," you don\'t feel that that isn\'t who you are. Apologize that you can\'t meet up to their expectations, but emphasize that it\'s a waste of time for them to force something on you that just isn\'t you at all. Be who you can be, not who you should be.
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Spudz you should be a professional wrestler.
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hehehe, whatever you do.. just make a ton of money when you grow up and then shove those ferraris in their faces. :p
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Spudz you should be a professional wrestler.
I think I\'ll pass, I dont like sweaty guys :D
On another hand
Potato the Masher has a ring to it :D
Thanks guys. Ill talk to him tomorrow and hopefully get my thoughts across into his stubborn brain.
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hey spudz...
when I was 14 I discovered punk rock.(1987) My father (even tho he was a hippie) had a real hard time with my skating and music: sex pistols, clash... to the point where he broke 4 copies of never mind the bollocks..and made me break up with a 17 year old punker chick who was my first love. I ran away at 16.
at my HS grad party, we got into a fist fight... and eventually, I ended up on the other side of the country (sactown CA) I was homeless, on acid and loving life.
now I am a successful business type guy and have a good relationship with my miserable pop.
dude do what you want. life is short, the teeenage yeARS are the shortest, and f*ck everyone else.
BTW- if you wanna head east, I\'ll put you up for a while- no joke.
cheers,.
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dude, ill take that offer... shit i moved so now im only about 2 hours from buffalo...
tell your girlfriend lukes gonna be crashing on the couch for a few days, cause im comin over.
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seriously?
\'cos y\'all got a couch anytime, G.
my girl makes a kickass hangover sammich: eggs ham n-italian toast...
we love comany, and all y\'all as welcome anytime.
;)
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I\'d tell them to blow my pipe. I would\'nt have my parents tell me what to do, I remember them tryin to tell me what to do and stop wasting my life, and look at me now.. oh wait, bad example. But you got to do what you want, tell them to **** off and tell them to stop trying to re live their youth threw you.
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Just tell them you\'re gay and everything will be OK..... Ask Vapor Snake. :p
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Thank God my parents are easy-going, open-minded human beings. Especially my mother. The decision to become an actor might not have impressed every parent out there - but mine encouraged me to pursue the dream I have. To lead my own, personal life.
Yet I do have some stupid friends I don\'t like that much. Every time I "skip" school ( when I\'m dead tired and know that I just won\'t succeed in studying that day ), they call me up and ask why I am not in school. When I give them my honest explanation, they call me lazy. Perhaps it is laziness - but being tired is never a consequence of laziness. Not in my life, at least.
For example, I decided to skip school today. Why? I have had two looong and exhausting days. I didn\'t sleep well. I woke up this morning feeling like stiff shit on a broken toilet. I knew I had to sleep in order to secure the rest of the week, and so I did. Not long before a \'friend\' of mine called and asked why I wasn\'t in class. I told him the reason - that I had had two musical showings on both Monday and Tuesday and that I was dead tired due to them - and he just laughed, called me lazy and shut the phone. I was so pissed that it was very easy to stay home.
My mother understood and accepted my decision. My father doesn\'t know - and doesn\'t have to, either. While he is forgiving and kind, he wouldn\'t understand skipping school due to head-ache. And I do have a head-ache.
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You need me to take your uncle out? I know some people in the business. :thepimp:
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Originally posted by videoholic
You need me to take your uncle out? I know some people in the business. :thepimp:
Hell Me too
I know a Guy that will go out and kill someone for you for £1000 & If you Give him another £1000 you can get to chose who that person is. ;)
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Originally posted by Darth Joyda
Thank God my parents are easy-going, open-minded human beings. Especially my mother. The decision to become an actor might not have impressed every parent out there - but mine encouraged me to pursue the dream I have. To lead my own, personal life.
Yet I do have some stupid friends I don\'t like that much. Every time I "skip" school ( when I\'m dead tired and know that I just won\'t succeed in studying that day ), they call me up and ask why I am not in school. When I give them my honest explanation, they call me lazy. Perhaps it is laziness - but being tired is never a consequence of laziness. Not in my life, at least.
For example, I decided to skip school today. Why? I have had two looong and exhausting days. I didn\'t sleep well. I woke up this morning feeling like stiff shit on a broken toilet. I knew I had to sleep in order to secure the rest of the week, and so I did. Not long before a \'friend\' of mine called and asked why I wasn\'t in class. I told him the reason - that I had had two musical showings on both Monday and Tuesday and that I was dead tired due to them - and he just laughed, called me lazy and shut the phone. I was so pissed that it was very easy to stay home.
My mother understood and accepted my decision. My father doesn\'t know - and doesn\'t have to, either. While he is forgiving and kind, he wouldn\'t understand skipping school due to head-ache. And I do have a head-ache.
When I used to go to school I hardly ever went, if I wanted to stay off, I did. Teachers used to just laugh when I gave them notes saying why I wasn\'t there, in the end I just told them the truth, I got pissed and couldn\'t move, didn\'t feel like it etc etc.
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thats totally bs, just do what ever you want to do, dont listen to him... if he has a prob with it, then tell him to kiss your ass, this is messed up, my parents would never pressure me to take up a certain sport, let alone my uncle
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Originally posted by CHIZZY
hey spudz...
when I was 14 I discovered punk rock.(1987) My father (even tho he was a hippie) had a real hard time with my skating and music: sex pistols, clash... to the point where he broke 4 copies of never mind the bollocks..and made me break up with a 17 year old punker chick who was my first love. I ran away at 16.
at my HS grad party, we got into a fist fight... and eventually, I ended up on the other side of the country (sactown CA) I was homeless, on acid and loving life.
now I am a successful business type guy and have a good relationship with my miserable pop.
dude do what you want. life is short, the teeenage yeARS are the shortest, and f*ck everyone else.
BTW- if you wanna head east, I\'ll put you up for a while- no joke.
cheers,.
Deja vu! Same here Chizzy. I hated my "military" father when I was a teenager as I considered him overbearing, which he was. I went away to boarding school in MA and grew dreadlocks and skated. Now I am completely opposite and have a decent relationship with my dad as well.
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Just tell him you enjoy your life at the moment and he should be happy for you. At least you are not commiting crime and doing drugs (I hope).:eek:
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I don\'t skip school often - but I can manage through the studies even if I am not present every day. I wouldn\'t call myself \'lazy\', though, for if I skip school, that is probably due to the fact that I am either tired or pissed at someone / something.
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kill KILL KILL KILLLLLLLLLLLLLL in your ps2 games of course :)
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Thanks guys, I talked to him again last night.
He was pissed as hell when I told him to leave me alone. Then I gave the phone to my mom, and she is slightly angry at me. I may just run away :laughing: But I am seriously getting sick of this crap. Its just tiring having him call, and call, and call and call just making me feel worse than how I already feel.
You need me to take your uncle out? I know some people in the business.
Funny you should mention that, r4nd0m\'s dad is actually true-blue hitman. :D
BTW- if you wanna head east, I\'ll put you up for a while- no joke.
U know I live in AK, any east of here I\'d be in Russia.. :laughing:
Thanks for the offer CHiZZY, But until I get a job, Im stuck here.
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My mom is over protective of me so I don\'t tell her shit. I don\'t tell her when I get into a fight or anything. She nearly jumped through the roof when I told her I was going to play lacrosse. Actually, I didn\'t tell her at first but when I did, she didn\'t want me too. Everytime I get bruised or hurt, I hear it from her. I\'m sick of that shit. She also wants me to be this bookworm that I\'m clearly not. I want to live the way I want to live and chose the career I want to do, which is to be in the military. She\'s trying to get me to do something not in a combat area which isn\'t me at all. But I just ignore it and just keep my mouth shut about certain things.