It's a weird thing isn't it? The way that there are certain festivals (Christmas in most of Europe) that people feel they ought to spend with their family - even though they know it will be awful, and they would really rather be almost anywhere else!
It's like Murphy Law. You spent the holiday with your family and it's awful. You spent it alone and you felt awful. For the now lovey-dovey wonder-twins in the other room, I'd pull a teenager and say "grown-ups are weird", but then I'd have to remind myself I'm 26 now. Yikes!
Sorry you have to go through this! Things like this just reinforce my idea that real family are people with whom you choose to associate, rather than are forced to associate.
Ah, family. The ties that bind...and gag, as someone (Erma Bombeck, maybe?) once called a book.
Look on the bright side -- it's my 本命年, and I forgot to wear red underwear, and my girlfriend and I woke up too late to go to the nearest temple, so now I'm probably doomed to a year of bad luck. Plus I had to work over the holiday.
Sorry to hear things are going badly, at any rate. Hope things start looking up soon.
Well, once there was this guy trying to sell us 财神. Unfortunately he picked a time when my mum was not home and dad was sleeping. I was a child back then and didn't know how to deal with it. So I woke my dad up, he snarled to that guy "我家不发财！" Scared that guy and any god of fortune off. In that year we went from pissing poor to comparatively comfortable.
PS. You can always put on a pair of red socks, or a red belt.
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It's like Murphy Law. You spent the holiday with your family and it's awful. You spent it alone and you felt awful.
For the now lovey-dovey wonder-twins in the other room, I'd pull a teenager and say "grown-ups are weird", but then I'd have to remind myself I'm 26 now. Yikes!
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Look on the bright side -- it's my 本命年, and I forgot to wear red underwear, and my girlfriend and I woke up too late to go to the nearest temple, so now I'm probably doomed to a year of bad luck. Plus I had to work over the holiday.
Sorry to hear things are going badly, at any rate. Hope things start looking up soon.
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In that year we went from pissing poor to comparatively comfortable.
PS. You can always put on a pair of red socks, or a red belt.
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