Forced to do things

[Rey]

How do you feel when you are forced to do stuff like clean the floor, wash the dishes and all that shit. Do you think that life just sucks when your parents do this? For example playng basketball when you dont wanna play. How do you react when this happens? Does it still happen to you? It does not happen much to me anymore. But when I was younger it occured alot.

 

[Kandy-Sugar]

I remember when I was forced to go to church once. <_<

Not much fun at all.

I was told that if I didn't go to church then I couldn't see my boyfriend.

Seriously, that's the worst way to get someone involved religiously. We aren't even religious.

I think my mum was doing a Julie Cooper from the O.C and started to think, "I wonder what everyone will think if my daughter doesn't attend church."

It lasted for one day. <_< I have no idea how I got out of it.

The sad truth of the matter is that while you're under your parents roof you pretty much have to do as they tell you unless you're independent enough to move out and make certain decisions for yourself. =/

Washing the floor and cleaning the dishes are menial things to worry about in my opinion. They have to be done no matter if you want to do it or not. At the end of the day someone has to do them and if you're not the one cooking the dinner, then it is expected that you help out and get in and help clean up the dishes etc.

 

[Shu]

Like, Kandi church for the first 1/4 of my life. Every Sunday I was dragged along even if I fought it. I opened up my mind and took it all in, but swallowing it and digesting it was something entirely different. I was told I was baptized and how to follow and blah blah.

I actually don't mind looking back on it now. I had a good bit of friends in church, who weren't exactly there on their own account either. So we goofed off a good bit.

 

[L]

I don't feel anything.

Because no one can make me do anything I don't want to do without compromise.

As for that instance; I can really only say it's probably irritable (.i.e, makes me want to punch poor innocent cabbage patch faced children) , depending on the compromise in question.

 

[Makatak]

Throughout my life, I have been dragged along on family vacations I didn't want to be part of and family get-togethers I wasn't interested in. The former doesn't happen anymore. But the latter still does from time to time. Its like finishing up a short jail term. I really have no interest in other people's lives or personal affairs, not even relatives.

When I finish college and start making enough money to have an apartment all to myself, I'm going to fully exercise my prerogative to visit or invite people over as infrequently as I wish, if at all.

 

[Not of Rust]

My father tried to instill the understanding that I had to work for a living at a very young age. I was more or less financially independant from age 12-13 on. I would help him or do myself all of the yardwork and other chores around the house and he would pay me by the hour. Typically, my weekends I spent working from 8AM-3PM from age 12-18 (plus had a part time job from 16-18). In the summer we'd work on larger scale projects as he was a teacher and had summers off as well.

It's a double-edged sword in hindsight - I learned to appreciate the benefits of hard work but I think it was just too young to initiate it. By the time I entered the real world I felt like I had already been there for 10 years.

 

[Gingerbread Lesbian]

I'm not really made to do anything, I have to agree with Derek, it's more irritable than anything. I mean I'm made to look after my brother and sister after my mums been working night shifts and needs sleep because my dad drives me down there >_> but it's not really that bad since I could get paid £40 a week for doing it, which isn't that bad considering during the day I nearly always want to be down there anyway whilst my dads at work Pretty much anything I'm made to do is something quite big anyway so I normally get a reward out of it, anything petty like washing the dishes when they're not even mine I'm like gtfo, especially when my brother and sister who are 9 and 11 use a different cup everytime they want a drink and a different plate everytime they want something to eat

 

[Sohryuden666]

I get forced to do stuff all the time. I'm only sixteen so I don't get much say in the matter. When I do speak up, I just into trouble, so I keep telling myself that doing a few things here and there won't hurt. It does get very frustrating though when someone tells you to do the same thing all the time, even when it's so easy that they can do it themselves. For instance, I don't really mind washing the dishes or dusting around the house if it's my turn, but when people ask me to do something unreasonable, like to keep changing the channel when the damn remote is right there in front of them, it just isn't right, and it just means that they're lazy.

 

[Catnip]

I get very angered and frustrated when I get told what to do. Actually, if someone tells me not to do something, I have a sudden urge to do so anyway. I can't help it.
But even though I do get angered and frustrated, I suck it all up and just do those stupid dishes. Honestly, I have no problem with dishes really -I've even went ahead and done them without anyone asking or telling me to do them- I just have a problem with getting told what to do.

ps.
The whole dishes thing was just an example.

 

[Ryvius]

I just do it. As long as I get a few hours a day to relax I won't get irritable or anything. I've always had a dog-like work ethic.

As for being forced to play basketball or something...wouldn't know, I'm too much of an ass to do something like that if I didn't want to.