Growing UP
I have barely been home for three weeks, and already I am ready to go back to Urbana-Champaign. My mother wants me to act like an adult, but she continues to see me as a child. I rarely ask her for money unless I really need it, and I rarely ask her for help with anything unless its to use her ipass. She rarely gives Branden anything to do, she yells at me because I don’t vacuum, clean the bathroom (that we both share), doing the dishes, or cutting the grass. All things that by the time I was Branden’s age I was doing, but he gets away with doing so less and getting paid more allowance. She needs to let me go somewhat, I get tired of doing the things she asks me without even so much as a good job or a thank you.
But she wonders why I don’t do the things she asks of me like for example, clean your room. Majority of the time my room is clean but the one day I let it get dirty I hear shit about it for weeks on end, and even after I clean my room I still hear about how it is dirty. But her room is always dirty. I don’t want to tell her, but I don’t think that I will be moving back in with her after I graduate just because she will treat me like a child, and I can’t handle it. I like my space, I like my freedom, I like doing what I want when I want to. But she constantly expects me to change my plans to fit hers, I think that it is a shock for her to discover that I have friends that actually want to hang out with me and see me, and I have a boyfriend that enjoys spending time with me. So I am not here at her beck and call to constantly watch Branden. I understand that she is in a relationship but so am I, and she has had her time to be young and now it is mine, so please don’t talk about how I am being selfish, because if I remember correctly this is the time in my life where I get to be selfish, and have fun and not think about the consequences because I am in my early twenties and I am going to act like, and I am not going to change my self to fit her standards. And I sure as hell don’t want to go to the fucking family reunion.
