My parents tend to think that everyone is out to get something for themselves, and it makes it hard at times to view anyone as fun or worth being friends with in a real way - as more than an aquaintance. I think they are more negative about people than need be, because I've lived by myself for a while, and have found that many people are nice enough. But whenever I am around my parents, it is hard to see people this way - especially my friends and boyfriends. They always find something wrong with them - they are not generous enough, or polite enough, or are too selfish. But most of the time, they are just normal human beings as far as I see.
It makes it really hard to enjoy being around other people sometimes. Part of me really wants to just ignore them, but then they are also right about many things. But I can't live my life always thinking my friends are going to be selfish to me or something, esp.when the only thing they might have done wrong was to forget to hold open a door once!
2006-12-30
16:29:11
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