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March 20, 2008


 This Liz, what an emo.

 

You know what? As soon as I get a job after graduation, I’ll move out of the house and stay out of the house. A lot of people say that it’s hard to live on your own—there’s no TV, no fridge,  there’s lots of laundry, rent, and too much take-out pseudo-food. But I can take that, as long as I’m free to come and go in my place.

 

I’m seriously tired of answering to my mom. I’m twenty, yet I don’t go out at night with friends, I don’t go out to party, I don’t do overnights. I don’t go anywhere much. Most of the time even, I don’t bother to ask for permission because I hate the look that my mom gives me when I do. It’s like I just told her that I aborted a baby yesterday after eating yogurt and will she please not buy any yogurt anymore and put it in the fridge because there are some lactose intolerant people with no self-control in the house you know? Yeah I know all that shit about parents caring so much about their kids’ safety but COME ON. I need a life. A decent twenty-year old life. I don’t smoke, I don’t drink and I don’t plan to do these things. I just want to go to places and live.

 

That’s why I can’t wait to graduate. I can work right now if I want to but that would break my parents’ heart. And do you know what they want me to do? THEY WANT ME TO TAKE UP LAW. WTF RIGHT? I have told them in no uncertain words that I think they’re batshit crazy.


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Previous Comments

hahaha hala i understand you. really. well you can have a life on your own if you want to. why not try to have those what you don’t have. thats what u call life actually. do i sound here like i am trying to persuade you? hahaha nuh, you know what in regards to taking up law, just tell them honestly.

Posted by boinky at March 21, 2008, 12:20 am

wow. i’m lucky to have cool prents.

Posted by J at March 21, 2008, 11:16 pm

Hi liz, I remember you visited my blog about a year ago (been comment digging again) with some kind words at a time when I was down. Now I find out you’re eve younger than my oldest kid :)

Parents are weird, paranoid and psychotic. That’s because they think they have to be good parents and good parents are weird, paranoid and psychotic.

But don’t worry, with a bit (well, maybe more than a little bit) of patience on your part, your parents will learn the error of their ways and see the strong young lady they have raised and maybe—well just maybe—they’ll loosen up a bit.

You hang in there :)

Posted by bambit at March 23, 2008, 4:36 pm

Hi there. :)
We basically have the same situation. I live with my grandparents. Imagine the generation gap!

The only reason I still have a social life is because I live in a dorm for most of the year and I’m the queen of pagtakas. heh.

Seriously though, I want to move out as soon as I can. Or take up my residency in the US.

If you ever need a roommate, hit me up. lol.

Posted by Ann at March 26, 2008, 6:14 pm

I am lucky to have cool parents and grannies.

Di bale malapit ka nang grumaduate. It’s about time naman na yung gusto mo na ang masunod :)

Posted by Mica at March 30, 2008, 3:39 am

hey, got here through noemi’s blog.

freedom is overrated. :) honest. i’ve been living on my own - so to speak - for the past ten years, and it’s been quite an adjustment for me now that i’ve moved back in. it drives me crazy that my dad calls me at 1130pm to ask me where i am - i’m 30, and does this mean i have a midnight curfew? - but i also realize that i sort of missed having people look for me. it’s just another way parents try to show they love you.

i’m about to move to another country in a few months, completely on my own, and i already know i will miss those pesky phone calls, even if it means i am going to be free from all their interference. :)

good luck, kaya mo yan!

Posted by dr_clairebear at April 2, 2008, 12:34 am