a wasted life?

[vanfane1]

You know that really hackneyed story that your grandfather sometimes tells you about how when he was our age he had to walk to school in 100 degree heat and 4 ft of snow (summer and winter respectively)? Well I remember learning one of the least likely people I know had to go through that. My mom. It wasn't for school exactly it was for the

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[oneiryn]

sometimes it's hard to remember that these people you've lived with since you've lived aren't just what you've seen running your life for nineteen years . . . they're heroes. and they have stories like anyone else, deeper, stranger, more dramatic and more alive than we ever imagine, and we might never know it all. and that's the thing that makes me feel farthest from adulthood, those unknown, unsuspected twists in the lives of the most familiar. there's so much that we think we know

[psyklonis]

Happy late birthday, Chris.

Sigh. You know, it's very easy to criticize your parents, especially when you are a teenager and living at home, and are full of these "issues" that don't really mean much, but you have to give them creedence for some reason or the other. But you're right; when it comes down to it, your parents sacrifice a whole lot for you, and it really is up to you to at the very least make them feel that it was well-deserved. My parents pretty much took the same path as yours; they worked 3 jobs each (along with their office jobs, they were actually janitors for a few months at some point, in a laundromat), and scrimped and saved money, and are living through a very unhappy marriage just in order to make sure my sister and I get all the options we can. And after reading your post, I, too, feel that I haven't done all that I can to make all the effort and sacrifice worth it. And we all really do have it good, too. Sigh.

thanx for the food

[turtl]

thanx for the food for thought. i know i don't appreciate my parents as much as i should...so...i'm gonna try to do more appreciating while i'm here. thanx again chris! :) and yeah, i really do admire ur relationship w/ ur family. ur quite lucky. :o)