My parents and I just got into a huge fight. My mother thinks I'm too young to be worrying about things, and I should be more focused on reaching out to do things or even become things. To be more specific, she's telling me that I should pursue my goals as a graphic designer, but what purpose does it serve to pursue something you don't want to? She's sending me to a school I might not be interested in, and she's making me go to college close to home. I don't want to stay near home to go to college. I want to go out into the distance and be confronted with a change of scenery. I even said that I would be even more responsible. She tells me that I'm still a minor; I hate being called a minor because that makes me just as guilty as many of the other minors who keep doing negative things. She tells me that I need counseling; sure I may need help, but I need good help, help in which I can benefit from and in which I can feel better. I'm only going to tell the counselor the same things I should tell my parents. I'm living life miserably right now, and if I become deprived of all of the things I want to do, then life itself will not be worth living. I would give up everything, although I know that this isn't what I should do. This is how I feel right now.
So, my questions to you:
- Have any of you had this feeling after your parents told you something you didn't want to hear or made you do
something you didn't want to do?
- In the end, after doing that something (only if you did it), did you feel any better that you did it, or did it make
you feel worse?
- Put yourself in a position in which you're going to college and are living with parents. Would you let them
decide where they will send you, or will you decide where to go and your parents must accept it?
- Do you think that after going to college for one year or even graduating from high school, you're more capable of
handling yourself, or do you still need, or even want, to be babied by your parents?
I'm also asking for opinions.