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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 689007" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>This is exactly it.</p><p></p><p>We bear all of the responsibility for doing and not doing...failing him...and ourselves.</p><p></p><p>Unsaid by him are all of the ways we were willingly inconvenienced. Because of our failure to indulge him 100 percent in every single way....he martyrs himself as the all-suffering child whose parents will not give him, help him, even a little bit.</p><p></p><p>And who will punish us by being destroyed by unknown forces...because we have forced him into the wilderness.</p><p></p><p>What an absolute jerk! And I raised this?</p><p>M asked my son last night? What are your plans? What are your goals? What kinds of work do you want to do?</p><p></p><p>The best my son could come up with is what he would like to study.</p><p></p><p><em>Science,</em> he replied.</p><p></p><p>M, flabbergasted, (who himself has worked since 5 years old) and did not have a life permitted him much freedom of choice...*but excelled and prospered despite it...said: <em>What kind of work do you want to do? </em></p><p></p><p>My son could not think of one thing. I do not know why. Is it because it is not a priority? Because he does not want to? Does not think beyond this minute and this want? All of it? None of it?</p><p></p><p>Albatross, Lil. I am here with you. I am really out of my element. This stuns me.</p><p></p><p>And why is that? Was I completely deluded because I came to have hope? </p><p></p><p>Who said it?</p><p></p><p>Hope is a dangerous thing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 689007, member: 18958"] This is exactly it. We bear all of the responsibility for doing and not doing...failing him...and ourselves. Unsaid by him are all of the ways we were willingly inconvenienced. Because of our failure to indulge him 100 percent in every single way....he martyrs himself as the all-suffering child whose parents will not give him, help him, even a little bit. And who will punish us by being destroyed by unknown forces...because we have forced him into the wilderness. What an absolute jerk! And I raised this? M asked my son last night? What are your plans? What are your goals? What kinds of work do you want to do? The best my son could come up with is what he would like to study. [I]Science,[/I] he replied. M, flabbergasted, (who himself has worked since 5 years old) and did not have a life permitted him much freedom of choice...*but excelled and prospered despite it...said: [I]What kind of work do you want to do? [/I] My son could not think of one thing. I do not know why. Is it because it is not a priority? Because he does not want to? Does not think beyond this minute and this want? All of it? None of it? Albatross, Lil. I am here with you. I am really out of my element. This stuns me. And why is that? Was I completely deluded because I came to have hope? Who said it? Hope is a dangerous thing. [/QUOTE]
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