Today, after much reflection, I realized my "happy childhood" was more like "the years I was oblivious to how much people despised me." FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I realized just how much of my life I’ve wasted. I was always raised with the “What will people think?” ideology by religious zealots. The anxiety it gave me influenced everything from what I wore, to where I went, even what I studied in school. I wish I’d been strong enough to be myself. FML
Today, my coworker was talking to me about how there's always that one person in a group of friends that everyone secretly dislikes and laughs at. I realized that that person is me. FML
Today, I realized I have most of the things I wanted when I was a kid. The ones I don't have are the emotional connections. I have all of the *material* things, and I hate my life because I'm lonely and touch-starved. FML
Today, I realized that even though I was an honor student throughout school, and considered the golden child who was going to go far in life, all I've accomplished a year after graduation is becoming an unemployed single mother still living with my parents. FML
Today, I realised that I wasted my teenage life just to be a parent pleaser. I'm in the final months of high school and while everyone is enjoying the last days, I'm sat here being a "good" son, listening to my parents argue, maybe divorcing. I'm in tears and can't go out as I'm not invited to anything anymore. FML
Today, my coworker was talking to me about how there's always that one person in a group of friends that everyone secretly dislikes and laughs at. I realized that person is me. FML
Today, both my mom and dad agreed I basically ruined their life by existing. They weren’t even trying to be mean, they just casually mentioned that their lives were brilliant before me, then after I was born everything turned to shit and they’ve been miserable ever since. FML
Today, I felt inspired to create a photo album of myself through the years. As I was organizing the photos of my childhood, I noticed how many my mom was holding me and hugging me in. When she came home from work I jokingly asked, "When did you start hating me?" She replied, "When you were 4." FML
Today, and almost every day, I find out that something "mean" or morally questionable my parents used to do to me when I was a kid is actually considered abusive. I've now come to the conclusion that I was a victim of pretty much every type of abuse (except for the physical kind) during my childhood. FML
Today, I was trolling on a My Little Pony forum. I was midway through typing a big post, calling them all a bunch of attention-seeking losers who act like morons because their parents never loved them, when I broke down in tears, realizing I'd just perfectly described myself. FML
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themysteriousfox 18
Happens to the best of us.
NomeDMF 17
First step is acceptance.
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Comments (50)
palosqueak 19
ignorance is bliss.
nickie_94 18
Same here, but the people that despise me are "family"
Therid 22
Yeah same dude
becca1998 22
Just forget about those people who didn't like you, go out and meet new people. Try for a fresh start, hope it gets better though:)
GeorgiaBea 28
I think that is rather par for the course in most of our lives. Children are selfish, and narcissistic, mainly because it is what keeps them alive long enough to survive into adulthood. As we grow, we either learn emotional intelligence or we don't. As long as you are a better person than you were yesterday, and you feel good about yourself, then try to not let others opinions bother you.
hannahkonda 14
I know that feel OP. Looking back mine was "those people that tolerated me because we saw each other every day". They actually told me we couldn't be friends anymore when we got to high school because I didn't fit in with the new friends. Children can me so mean.
Animeisthebest1 14
Ignorance is bliss
more4me 27
Totally relatable !
fungi0528 12
Dude I knew that during my childhood.
BadLuckHero 6
That's my childhood in a nutshell
jessreallysucks 19
I know the feeling all too well