15th December, 2007
This Is Tomorrow
So I told my parents and my mother didn’t take it so well. She cried and it didn’t help that she was crying. She was trying to explain her views, but they didn’t help that much. My father tried to help. He said that I didn’t need a psychiatrist and believes that I don’t need to see someone on a regular basis for more than a month or two. Basically, it was very hard to convince him a lot of things.
It is also hard to convince him that I cannot stay at home with him and my mother. He called me selfish for wanting my freedom in Berkeley, but can you blame me? He just came in here asking for my pay stubs because he wants to be in control of everything. I don’t know what to do. He wants me to move back in with him and attend the community college. I want to be in Berkeley and work.
That’s my dilemma. I have never defied him to his face before with this immediate of an action. Usually when I defy him, he doesn’t find out until later on, but this one, this one he would know about right away. I’ve never done that before and I don’t know if I have the guts to do it. Should I go back home despite feeling as if it’s the most incorrect thing for me to do, or do I defy him, risk everything that I have with my parents, and stay in Berkeley?
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