tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3068690574771703228.post1249592558728689331..comments2023-05-26T08:16:17.219-07:00Comments on Be You. Live Your Dream!: Let Other People Be How They're Gonna BeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03043862027969047380noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3068690574771703228.post-62172716085244227532013-03-12T16:58:36.445-07:002013-03-12T16:58:36.445-07:00Jeanette,
Thanks so much for commenting and sharin...Jeanette,<br />Thanks so much for commenting and sharing your experience!!! It means a lot and is always comforting to hear other people experiencing the same or similar things. <br /><br />I wonder if we'll ever get over disappointments in or from our parents. I'm so many ways I'm very independent and take care of myself. Perhaps it's BECAUSE my parents weren't super close to me, I learned to be close to myself, if you will. I often felt like the more mature one, among my mom and me, growing up (and still do). But my mom STILL gets to me, and I hate that. I STILL feel disapointed when she does stuff contrary to what I think a good mother "should" do. And contrary to how I wish she'd behave. It seems by now I'd learn and not expect anything from her anymore. I guess it saddens me to let go of the hope. The hope that one day she WILL be different. I know it's not going to happen. <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03043862027969047380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3068690574771703228.post-58732890195744324402013-03-12T15:50:29.983-07:002013-03-12T15:50:29.983-07:00Oh I can see myself in your experience. I had a s...Oh I can see myself in your experience. I had a similar disappointment when I got 3 tickets to the opera for my parents and myself. We all have September birthdays and thought it would be a great present.My Dad was born in Italy and my mother was born here but didn't learn to speak English until she went to kindergarten. They had never gone to an opera, and I had this warm and rosy picture in my mind of us bonding. But my parents weren't interested in going at all. They like it on tv but didn't want to attend. They gave their tickets away.This was a few years ago and honestly I haven't gotten over it yet. If I had I probably wouldn't be commenting.It hurts to realize that the relationship I want with them will never be. The little girl in me still wants them to be different. I have to learn to change my expectations.<br /><br />"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." <br />Leo Tolstoy<br />jeanettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00890573538486424227noreply@blogger.com