A serious question...
...to those that actually read my LJ.
I went to Fun World yesterday and it was great. I had so much fun there playing ITG, Beatmania, and Wangan plus hanging with cool peeps is always a plus for me.
But then I get home today and my parents give me the usual shit about how people my age who go to arcades are unsuccessful and shit.
I honestly want to say I could care less about having like a professional career and devoting all my time to work to be successful.
Because it seems when you are a success you have to kinda work all the time and have little time to enjoy things. Or you work and work and work and THEN you finally have to time to enjoy life...in your 30s or so.
Why the fuck should I have to wait around for that?
I don't see why you can't balance both. Plus, how often do I travel to these places? Maybe once every two months or so. How can you say taking one day out of two months is unhealthy and a terrible thing?
I really think they are just letting their personal opinions of arcades think for them. They just seem to list stereotypes and shit and not have any sort of basis for these claims. They haven't been to an arcade is a long ass time so they don't see these people so I deem their claims invalid.
It would be like if I said people who go to museums are just bookworms and elitist intellectuals that want to feel good about their knowledge.
Is that claim true?
Of course it isn't!
I guess their claim isn't the problem, it's just how they are arriving at it.
Besides, yeah there are sketch people that go there but name me one place you won't find somebody sketchy. You can find an example of that almost anywhere.
You think shifty people don't strut into my bank? Or a Starbucks? Or a Bookstore?
Makes me almost wish for a zombie apocalypse just so I could smirk at them and say "Well gee, guess who studied up on the right subject this whole time! Bet you wish you read World War Z and the Zombie Survival Guide, ya?"
That isn't going to happen though.
I guess they are just hoping for me to be a success but they come across as wanting this so they can feel good about themselves. Knowing that their son turned out okay and until then he's up in the air.
No wonder they were surprised when a year ago I revealed to them I honsetly thought they believed me to be a big disappointment.
I mean they only seemed to pay attention to my failures instead of all I'm accomplished with myself.
I guess you could say I wasn't born into a family that was encouraging of their son no matter what and were proud of him despite what he wants to do with himself.
I just feel that at times they want me to be better in a way that they would feel good about, not something I would enjoy.
Then I remember how they hate on my hobby of arcade going.
Think of it this way. Arcades were huge when I was a kid and they are slowing down a bit but can still be fun. My generation had moved along with this. Why do you think you see a lot of videos of top players that are adults?
Are they stupid and unsuccessful idiots? I don't think so. I doubt they spend all of their time doing this.
But it's pointless to try and argue this point to my parents. They are so close minded about this and fail to listen to my arguements about this.
I wonder if they realize Xbox Live is probably worse since that's just a bunch of 10 year olds who throw around the word Jew, Nigger, and Motherfucker like these words are the biggest things to ever be discovered and need to be shared with humanity.
I'm ending my LJ post for now. I'm just going to repeat myself, but I'm just having one of those times where I'd like to punch my parents in the face for ignorance.
I wish my situation would improve. Come June...can hardly wait.
(Who decided the word Jew should be an adjective like that? It just sounds stupid when you say it. I mean, I don't go around saying "That guy is such a Christian." because I'm not a giant fuck bucket.)
I went to Fun World yesterday and it was great. I had so much fun there playing ITG, Beatmania, and Wangan plus hanging with cool peeps is always a plus for me.
But then I get home today and my parents give me the usual shit about how people my age who go to arcades are unsuccessful and shit.
I honestly want to say I could care less about having like a professional career and devoting all my time to work to be successful.
Because it seems when you are a success you have to kinda work all the time and have little time to enjoy things. Or you work and work and work and THEN you finally have to time to enjoy life...in your 30s or so.
Why the fuck should I have to wait around for that?
I don't see why you can't balance both. Plus, how often do I travel to these places? Maybe once every two months or so. How can you say taking one day out of two months is unhealthy and a terrible thing?
I really think they are just letting their personal opinions of arcades think for them. They just seem to list stereotypes and shit and not have any sort of basis for these claims. They haven't been to an arcade is a long ass time so they don't see these people so I deem their claims invalid.
It would be like if I said people who go to museums are just bookworms and elitist intellectuals that want to feel good about their knowledge.
Is that claim true?
Of course it isn't!
I guess their claim isn't the problem, it's just how they are arriving at it.
Besides, yeah there are sketch people that go there but name me one place you won't find somebody sketchy. You can find an example of that almost anywhere.
You think shifty people don't strut into my bank? Or a Starbucks? Or a Bookstore?
Makes me almost wish for a zombie apocalypse just so I could smirk at them and say "Well gee, guess who studied up on the right subject this whole time! Bet you wish you read World War Z and the Zombie Survival Guide, ya?"
That isn't going to happen though.
I guess they are just hoping for me to be a success but they come across as wanting this so they can feel good about themselves. Knowing that their son turned out okay and until then he's up in the air.
No wonder they were surprised when a year ago I revealed to them I honsetly thought they believed me to be a big disappointment.
I mean they only seemed to pay attention to my failures instead of all I'm accomplished with myself.
I guess you could say I wasn't born into a family that was encouraging of their son no matter what and were proud of him despite what he wants to do with himself.
I just feel that at times they want me to be better in a way that they would feel good about, not something I would enjoy.
Then I remember how they hate on my hobby of arcade going.
Think of it this way. Arcades were huge when I was a kid and they are slowing down a bit but can still be fun. My generation had moved along with this. Why do you think you see a lot of videos of top players that are adults?
Are they stupid and unsuccessful idiots? I don't think so. I doubt they spend all of their time doing this.
But it's pointless to try and argue this point to my parents. They are so close minded about this and fail to listen to my arguements about this.
I wonder if they realize Xbox Live is probably worse since that's just a bunch of 10 year olds who throw around the word Jew, Nigger, and Motherfucker like these words are the biggest things to ever be discovered and need to be shared with humanity.
I'm ending my LJ post for now. I'm just going to repeat myself, but I'm just having one of those times where I'd like to punch my parents in the face for ignorance.
I wish my situation would improve. Come June...can hardly wait.
(Who decided the word Jew should be an adjective like that? It just sounds stupid when you say it. I mean, I don't go around saying "That guy is such a Christian." because I'm not a giant fuck bucket.)