Time - 25.05.14 in Your Face

It's time to stop grumbling over my parents' failures. I am old enough to forge my own way in life (and have been old enough for some time now). I decide how much bearing they have on my life. I don't need to earn their love or respect - if they're not willing to love and respect the person I am (and I know that I am a decent person - if I was completely awful it would be a different story) then it is their loss.

I don't need to try to live up to mother's unrealistic expectations and attempts to live vicariously through me.

I don't need to try and maintain a relationship with my distant father, who has, once again, deleted me from his life in his usual cowardly fashion.

I am going to live my life as I wish, and as well as I can given life's inevitable challenges. Life is much easier if you let it take its course, instead of fighting against the current.