by Benvolio Montague » Wed Feb 29, 2012 1:32 pm
Dear father,
Please try to lower your expectations of me. You want me to be the perfect daughter - the outgoing, beautiful, straight-A student that I used to be. You want me to be the son you never had - strong, althletic, someone to go hunting with you. But I'm not, and probably never will be. I'm lazy, weak, painfully shy, not particularly attractive, and would much rather draw pictures of deer than shoot them. These things are not just going to change overnight, and you yelling at me certainly isn't going to help. And I know that my mother has been too protective of me, but it's not going to help if you yell at her either.
I want to love you the way a child is supposed to love their father... but the truth is, the only reason I don't want you gone is because you provide money and other material things for me and my family. I wish we could understand each other, but the way things look right now, it isn't going to happen anytime soon.
Love, the person who used to be your "little sparkle", but apparently isn't good enough anymore.