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are you going to end up being just like mummy and daddy?
is that an ok thought or would you hope to be completely different
when your their age?
is that an ok thought or would you hope to be completely different
when your their age?
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But I'll probably end up a combination of the worst bits of both of them
did you turn out like your parents??
no octy, nothing at all like them!
my parents were extremely hard working, working class people.
very honest and very set in the ways of their parents. my dad worked all the hours going to provide for his family. all good stuff realy.
my father was offered the chance to go into bizz in the early 60's but wasn't a risk taker.
by the time i was 10, i had already decided that i didn't want to spend my entire life grafting endlessly and have nothing but memories of work and more work.
i would be a risk taker ...which i took to the extreme but it all worked out fine in the end.
somehow i didnt think so............
as for original question, theres thing i respect about my parents and things i dont like. there are many things that by choice i would choose not to take after but as i grow up its disturbing the way i find myself repeating their own life. specially my dad.
when i imagine my dad at my age i imagine him to be very much like me. although maybe a little more sheltered for want of a better word.
but theres worse ways to be than like my parents i guess, at least they are nice kind people. although i dont plan to get married at 21 :eek2: or have kids at 28 :eek:
my mum married my dad when she was only about 18 months older than me!! terrifying...
I'd like to be able to have the same balance as they had with me and the try and teach my kids the same morals and manners as they did with me as they were pretty sound parents in that respect.
good question........to answer truthfully I'd have to say........if I could only be a 'mummy' if I was the same as my mum, and the 'daddy' as my dad, then............I'd rather not have children! (even though I do want them one day)!
I think it's because I probably think about things more, and I think I'm learning from my own experiences, rather than them of my parents.
If that makes any sense.
im never going to die
My parents are very, very liberal. It's part of their times and personality. My dad goes way out of his way to be a friend. If the person turns out to be untrustworthy, then they are no longer a friend. Me, I size the person up, see if they are worth being friends with first...then I'll be their friend. Also, I don't respect the cultures, values and beliefs of every one in the world as being their right to hold. There is such a thing as an enemy. I don't know that my parents' generation believed that.
your parents had communist enemies. now its terrorists. those in power always finds an enemy somewehre. its how they persuade you to maintain the status quo