I just came back from parents evening. It wasn't as good as it could've been, the teachers were all saying pretty average stuff about me. And it didn't make my mum very happy. Up until last year I was perfect, quiet, straight A student, now I'm not so great. My parents say it's just wasted potential but they don't get it.
We only live once. My mum was moderately clever and worked really hard at school. She doesn't like my friends. She tries to hide it, but it's easy to tell she thinks they're a bad influence on me. The truth is, my friends are the best thing that's ever happened to me. She thinks that's stupid, but they are. They made me this person who I prefer masses to who I was before. I want to do well in school, but I know, I'll be a much happier person if I still know my friends in ten years, than if I'm some snooty medical student already earning 30K a year or something. My Mum doesn't get that. She always valued her job above her friends and actually ---Dad just came into my room as I wrote this, and in this gap, I had a cry and talk etc, basically just telling him what I'm writing here anyway--- actually never had any real close friends. Not like I am with Megan and Josh and that. They really are everything to me, and she doesn't get that. She judges them all as bad people, just because they aren't 100% dedicated to their work. They aren't bad people, they just aren't nerds.
They are the most amazing people I know. I can't wait until I'm out of here and free to do whatever I want.
Bron