oh hey, i totally understand where your at with your mom. i had a similar relationship with my mother. she couldn't seem to endure having me around (and frankly, i couldn't endure her either). when i was home all she did was bitch at me so i thought it strange that whenever i'd try to get away she'd call the cops to have me dragged back home, where she'd bitch at me some more. i get what you're saying. but maybe you could just drop her a postcard as you're tooling through some small town in middle of nowhere. no return address. just a "Hi Mom, I'm alive and doing great. Luv U!". she'll imagine all that all kinds of horrors have befallen her little girl if you don't. i tortured my mom in that way after i finally escaped. i could have did what i'm suggesting you do but i didn't. i regret i did that to her now.
what im thinking about doing is telling her that im leaving no matter what but i would rather be able to tell her where i am and what im doing so that she doesnt have to worry but if she cant agree to let me go then im gonna have to drop all contact until im 18. and ill just say that if she lies about it and tries to bring me back after i leave [which she most likely will] then i will have lost all trust for her and our relationship will be like the relationship she has with her mom. [my mom refuses to speak to her mom.] i hate to do that but i dont know what else to do. it might not seem like a big deal to wait until im 18 but i feel like im going insane here. and i mean that literally.
thats a good idea. if she doesnt agree to let me leave and i end up leaving without her permission then i will do that. that would be a win-win situation. thank you.
oh and if you're really paranoid that she can track you down while your wheels are turning through Quackingduck Michigan don't use tourist postcards that say "HI From Quackingduck Michigan!".
cool! and you're welcome. she'll still be pissed off at you if you flee without her approval but the postcards will cushion her hurt feelings and distress and thus mitigate some of her anger. man! how cool that you're about to embark on an adventure. and it's good you're going with some friends. taking care of each other while sharing good times (and bummer times). excellent!
i know. im so excited. i dream about all the different places i will go and all the people i will meet and all the experiences i will have and i know that my dreams arent even coming close to what it will be like. its no doubt going to be hard as well though. i wont have much money but i love the idea of that. because i'm really not interested in money or things. my friend and i will probably just play some acoustic shows in some of the places we go and make some money for food/gas or just busk with some other musicans. it will be so different from how things are for me now where all i hear about everyday is how important money is and how i neeed to go to college and get a 9-5 job RIGHT away so that i can work my whole life so that when im old and cant work anymore i will have a bunch of money to live off of. but that doesnt even make sense. what in the world would i need that money for? i want to go out and LIVE life while i can. it just seems so backwards to me to waste life away until old age.
Exactly. I don't want to be who my parents are trying to force me to be. I love to play music, I love to travel, rave, and create things. That's what I do. I want to paint, draw...I want to do it all at any given moment. The path we're going down right now is taking me so far from where I want to go. The only solution is to go...and never look back. It'll be difficult, leaving family behind. But that's not why I would choose to travel. There's so much in life to experience and learn. We've been short changed for so long because of the traditional school system. May 1st, we're finally free. We're going to get somewhere. I know it. -Scarlet
hahaha i figured you had galaktoidz on your mind or something. but yea i had a moment with my mom yesterday where she basically told me that i would "learn my lesson" refering to the way i want to live. she said she "knows for a fact that i will be miserable." because money is happiness apparently. i dont understand it.
You're at the right forum, there's tons of people who belive this way here. Please don't refrain from calling yourself a hippie;a hippie is a person like you, not someone from a certain generation. GL!!!!
