by ♥ mizu » Tue Apr 09, 2024 4:29 pm
so freaking tired. sooo freaking tired. of these people. i walk on eggshells around my father. he's chronically stressed about anything and everything. i'll say something casually and it'll get him going. he doesn't understand humour. i'll make a joke like "ohh our car is making a funny noise! hahah" and he'll be like, "I need to get it fixed. Stop pointing it out. I've spent so much on you already. Jesus [mizu]." like. not exactly that, but i can totally see him saying that. he's just always angry. always. and i used to try to do things for him to make him happy but he would still grow angry with me. so now i just sit in my room and that angers him too. nothing is good enough for him. i'm struggling in school, not because of lack of skill, but because of lack of motivation. i feel depressed as hell. i hate living like i have to please other people. i'm not somebody who gets into arguments easily. i don't offend many people. when given the opportunity to, i can make friends pretty quickly. people LIKE me. so why doesn't my own father? it hurts so freaking bad. and it's silly of me to want him to change, because i know that he won't. but we are such different people. he told me himself that he's fine with being an angry, miserable person. but i don't get it. what happened to you, dad? what happened to you to make you this way? we all start out as happy little children, but i don't know how you grew up to be so angry.
and i feel like i'm the problem, too. he doesn't get angry like this at other people. he doesn't insult them to their faces. he huffs and puffs, but with me i feel like i'm always failing. and maybe i am. maybe i am the idiot daughter here with the victim complex. in which case, i need to fix it. but i hate my family life right now. both of my parents have had strokes, my grandpa just had one a few days ago, everyone is growing more mortal by the day. they're so old. so. old.