Becoming like your parents

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the fatalism in this is kinda sad i think. even if you don't have any issues with yr parents.
one of life's ironies.

Zeno, Thursday, 19 June 2008 01:09 (fifteen years ago) link

I'm nothing like either of my parents, other than that I'm usually nice to other people to a fault, like my dad.

Z S, Thursday, 19 June 2008 01:12 (fifteen years ago) link

how old are you?

Zeno, Thursday, 19 June 2008 01:13 (fifteen years ago) link

25. I doubt I will become much more like either one of them in the future. For one, I have no plans on the horizon for writing an epic trilogy that takes place 1000 years in the future, with the protagonist wandering the Israeli landscape searching for the new Zion, each interaction somehow related to Bible prophecy, with hyperlinks in the text that link to the relevant passages. With no prior writing experience whatsoever.

Though, I suppose you never know.

Z S, Thursday, 19 June 2008 01:21 (fifteen years ago) link

...sounds like an intersting book!

i don't know about you, but becoming like my parents strikes me more and more as i grow older.
when i was 25, i thought the same as you, more or less. if you still think that way when youll be 30+, youll be in the minority,i think.

Zeno, Thursday, 19 June 2008 01:26 (fifteen years ago) link

For one, I have no plans on the horizon for writing an epic trilogy that takes place 1000 years in the future, with the protagonist wandering the Israeli landscape searching for the new Zion, each interaction somehow related to Bible prophecy, with hyperlinks in the text that link to the relevant passages. With no prior writing experience whatsoever.

how is this THAT different from becoming one of the world's three best Marble Madness players

El Tomboto, Thursday, 19 June 2008 01:30 (fifteen years ago) link

Yeah I really want to become a passive aggressive manipulative authoritarian cold bitch. Oh and my mum's pretty awful too.
Overshare?

VeronaInTheClub, Thursday, 19 June 2008 01:40 (fifteen years ago) link

it's not really TMI if it's boring

El Tomboto, Thursday, 19 June 2008 01:42 (fifteen years ago) link

I've definitely refined my mother's tremendous guilt complex as I've gotten older. Worry, guilt, and a magnificent ability to unconciously act passive-aggresively at people when I really don't mean to. I've pulled mum up on it in recent years and she's been genuinely upset and swore she wasnt trying to do anything underhanded, and Ive realised I can be the same aaaargh.

Also my voice is very like hers now.

Trayce, Thursday, 19 June 2008 01:47 (fifteen years ago) link

it's not really TMI if it's boring
No I know, I meant is it overshare as in it was unreasonably ranting?
I'd like to become like my aunt, weird promiscuity/madonna whore complex aside because she's reeeeeaaaaaally stylish and has a great 'devil may care' attitude that is encouraging, she's not defeatist about her age. I don't want to become like either of my parents because they are not old enough to be as racist or as fundamentalist as they are but they have good music traits that I have inherited and a dry urbane wit that I'd like.

VeronaInTheClub, Thursday, 19 June 2008 01:54 (fifteen years ago) link

becoming like my parents strikes me more and more as i grow older.

just wait until when you hit middle age and/or yr parents are gone. I'm even starting to look like my dad now.

m coleman, Thursday, 19 June 2008 10:45 (fifteen years ago) link


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