A lot of times, it seems like getting good grades is more important to my parents than my own happiness. Sure, I get excellent grades--but, there's that emptiness. It's like there is still that little child inside of me that wants my parents' reassurance that they love me for me and not the things that I do--and that I am important. At 17, I am old enough to realize that all parents love their kids regardless the ways in which they show it. Somehow, it does not seem like they realize that kids grow up and if you don't seize the chances that you have to spend time with them, it will too late. They'll go to college, get married, have lives of their own, and you can't spend time with them in the same way. I just wonder if I am asking too much. Is it that they don't understand, or that my personality is totally different in that maybe my desires do not match other people desires. I mean my ultimate goal in life is to be a wonderful and loving mom. I am the personality type that
2007-05-20
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