by kwintestal 24 Replies latest jw friends
I wanted to be a nurse . . . that was strongly discouraged since I may one day be forced to administer blood products to a patient. Well, I am now a flight paramedic and guiltlessly give my patients blood with a smirk on my face.
I hated not being able to participate in any after-school activities. I think that bothered me more than not celebrating birthdays.
Red
i always wanted to join the girl scouts. i wanted to attend high school. i wanted to wear cute, hip clothes. i wanted to go to slumber parties. i wanted to date boys. i wanted to listen to rock music. i wanted to escape into fantasy but was told that Jehovah could read your thoughts. i wanted to explore my own body. i wanted to trick-or-treat. i wanted to celebrate christmas. i wanted valentines. i wanted to celebrate my birthday with a big pink cake with flowers all over it.
"I turned to a cult for mindless happiness when I had beer all along." --Homer Simpson after joining the Movementarians.
Good to see you back Incense.
oh, well, thank you .
academia, singing...missed out on a dozen scholarships.
It's very poopie. (See..told you I missed out on academia. har!)
I HATED being the kid in class that didn`t participate in all the school functions,
be it holidays, saying the pledge to the flag, sports. I was very shy and this only
added to it more! Thank God the friends I had had known me since kindergarten
and knew my situation. As I grew older I learned to just do what I wanted and just
never let my parents know. My step-mom would have been a great dictator!
I think everybody's touched on most of the things I think I missed out on--relationships with peers (I got yanked from school too...but it didn't last that long), school activities including assignments that might have holiday themes, any after school activity, birthday parties, being allowed to have a warm fuzzy feeling when in the presence of a christmas tree, being able too get through a day without worrying about the "great tribulation"--but you know I think I am who I am because of it. I'm not saying it's right (I know it's not), but some of those experiences molded me in some ways for the better after I realized they were wrong...does that make sense? I guess what I'm saying is I learned from it.
WoW! What I would like to know is , is there anyone`s parents who are
at all apologetic or shows any remorse for what their (most of us) kids went
through at such young ages??! All I ever got out of my stepmom was that
"they realized they made a few mistakes".......nothing else! Just that I`m going to
hell ( what! ) and calling me a an apostate. Funny thing is she never asked me first
if I still believed in God!
Karategirl, your post sounds very similiar to the same situation I went through.
I graduated #7 out of my class and was sent letters from colleges all over asking me to come there. But nooooooooo I was needed out in the pioneer ranks (and needed to clean stinky funky ass houses with my stepmom and her ideal JW job....HOUSECLEANING)....and my goody goody two shoe ass did just that....Now I'm trying to go to school and earn a degree and its difficult but not too difficult as to where I can't do it...But I constantly sit back and think about where I could be and what I could have avoided in life if I wouldn't have been under the JW brainwashing treatment.
Sweetp-
Keep up the good work and don't stop trying. This is my sixth year in college but you know what, today I filled out my gradution petition and will have a BA in June. Even if I never make more money or have an upper level job, the fact that I stuck it out and will have it after all those years of waste, No ONe, no one can take it away from me ever.
You Rock and you are gonna get your'n too!!!!!! Stick it to 'em!! Yeah!!!!!
KG
I am running on very little sleep right now. Only one more final on saturday and I can sleep all day sunday.
