Ok, I wasn't sure what to do with this, so I decided a good place for it to be was here.

So, on skype today I got to overhear my friend and his father arguing with his mother. I kinda felt like I was invading their privacy, but I just decided to listen anyway, and telling myself that it was my friend who I cared about made it easier, but thats no excuse. Anyway back on topic.

His mother apparently told him yesterday (his birthday) that he couldn't do what he wants with his life, that he's going to go to OSU (oregon state university), and get a good job and some other stuff(it was all a bunch of BS). He told her: "What if I don't want to go there? what if I don't even wanna go to college?"
She got all rage at him and started screaming about how he's going to ruin his life and he's going to be homeless on the street. She said that he had to make money! and he couldn't be happy.
He asked whats wrong with being happy if he made a little less money? and she said that hes going to go to college and avoided the question. Throughout all of this, his father was sticking up for him. His mother kept calling the both of them close minded (when she was clearly the one being close minded). He even said "What if I want to drive a truck like Dad? Is there something wrong with that?" She started screaming about how he doesn't want to be like his father and that he should be trying to do better.

I understand that she wanted him to have a good successful life, but if he's not happy then whats the point? I think its pretty fucked up that people still think that money is the only thing that matters. I'm pretty sure he covered it up with "Oh I'm sick,"(He said this when he finally came back to his computer btw) but I think he was actually in tears because his mother wouldn't accept that he wanted to do something that made him happy.

I know this didn't happen to me, but it was still one of my best friends who it did happen to, and he's like a brother to me.