another fight
Today was a beautiful day, which has ended in... another fight with my parents. First of all, i hate fights in general. I like people too much to enjoy conflict between them. But when someone is wrong, and is trying to impose that on me, i will fight with them. The problem with parents in this situation is that they have all the power, so even if they're wrong, there's not much you can do about it. You can only try to argue your point to them, which is difficult when you keep getting emotional because you hate fighting with them so much...
It started out really stupidly; they were angry because they thought i was going to come home and clean my room when really i had said no such thing to them. Really, though, they were angry basically because they'd had to go to work that day and i hadn't, and i didn't work at things in the house all day to make up for the discrepancy. Because of the fact that i had fun today, i obviously can't prioritize. Wow, that makes a lot of sense. I got straight A's all through high school, i got the Sousa award for being the best band kid ever, i got a FULL RIDE SCHOLARSHIP to Iowa State... obviously, i need to get my priorities straightened out so i can get something useful done for a change. Ten points for logic to my engineer father.
I get so frustrated with my parents sometimes. I tell them i'll get things done, and if they'd leave me alone, i would, but they get angry very quickly when the things aren't finished on the timetable they'd figured out in their minds. My mom wants a specific schedule for everything, and i can't give it to her because that's not the way i operate, but she thinks i'm doing it just to spite her, and we fight again. My dad comes home from work and speaks angrily at his children because he doesn't think we've been doing enough useful things during the day... it's summer, dad! I have all my life to work at a job and be a fine, upstanding, productive member of American society - just let me have my last summer before college. Please. I'll be gone soon, and then we won't have to fight about it anymore.
It started out really stupidly; they were angry because they thought i was going to come home and clean my room when really i had said no such thing to them. Really, though, they were angry basically because they'd had to go to work that day and i hadn't, and i didn't work at things in the house all day to make up for the discrepancy. Because of the fact that i had fun today, i obviously can't prioritize. Wow, that makes a lot of sense. I got straight A's all through high school, i got the Sousa award for being the best band kid ever, i got a FULL RIDE SCHOLARSHIP to Iowa State... obviously, i need to get my priorities straightened out so i can get something useful done for a change. Ten points for logic to my engineer father.
I get so frustrated with my parents sometimes. I tell them i'll get things done, and if they'd leave me alone, i would, but they get angry very quickly when the things aren't finished on the timetable they'd figured out in their minds. My mom wants a specific schedule for everything, and i can't give it to her because that's not the way i operate, but she thinks i'm doing it just to spite her, and we fight again. My dad comes home from work and speaks angrily at his children because he doesn't think we've been doing enough useful things during the day... it's summer, dad! I have all my life to work at a job and be a fine, upstanding, productive member of American society - just let me have my last summer before college. Please. I'll be gone soon, and then we won't have to fight about it anymore.