etv78 donated a kidney to his father who then stopped writing him. etv78 got pissed off and confronted his father, who pushed him out of a 10 storey window. That’s when he stopped walking and met Jacob who lent him his wheelchair. etv78 went to Australia to go wheelchairabouts. He then crashed on Jacob’s island and lost his wheelchair, and started walking around with a suitcase full of knives. He blew up a whole bunch of things looking for his wheelchair, which Jacob had hidden in a cave. Then a helicopter landed causing nosebleeds and memory loss and time travel. The Others fucked up the Dharmas six love. Smokey fucked up the Others, who pretended to be the Dharmas, but Smokey knew all along. Kate loved Jack but fucked James anyway. etv78 fell down a well. Jack dropped a bomb down another well, which didn’t go off at first. Then boom, it went off, causing etv78 to go back home in a box. He eventually found his wheelchair, which Jacob had Fedexed to an alternate universe. In the end they met in a church for a group hug. etv78’s mother doesn’t get it.
His father would not pay for all his college expenses, so he dropped out years ago. He has not got on with life, and blames it on his father.
Hating your father is not going to be a part of a successful realignment of your life. It uses emotional energy, and warps your judgment. It estranges your mom, and isolates you.
Tris
Yes she does. I gave it to her last night. OHHHH!!!
He picked incoherent, I picked oversimplified and you probably projected whatever your fuckups are into the situation muster up some compassion amidst the confusion. So we’re all on easy street.
He rambles on about vague issues, dad was an asshole because the state screwed him over, and mom was a sham because she had a kid in college? yeah, crystal clear.
As a designated asshole critic I gotta tell you, when etv78 tosses out some rambling incomprehensible story about how his life is all fucked up because of daddy, yet as a college level student he can’t even put a coherent paragraph together it’s just too easy for us asshole critics to take a shot at him.
And it looks like it was too easy for the bleeding hearts to coddle him too.
WTF? After 8 months of lurking you come back to drop this turd in the punch bowl?
Win.
I laughed.
Me too.
It wasn’t meant to be a turd, just an attempt at humour. I’m sorry it was lost on you.
I thought it was very funny. Not at all turd-like. And it was more coherent than the OP.
And let’s face it, this thread ain’t exactly a punch bowl to begin with.
Yeah, that’s a real knee-slapper.
:rolleyes:
I agree and if Mel would have confined his “humor” to the topic at hand (such as it is) I’d have been on board, but to make fun of the OP because he’s in a wheelchair… well sorry, that was lost on me. YMMV.
You know he is actually in a wheel chair, right?
If it is, someone spiked it with Boone’s Hill Farm.
I sympathise with the OP.
I am not going into my childhood. The best thing I can say is they never beat me. They weren’t the most horrible parents…but they were not good one, not good ones at all.
Because of this, I HAVE suffered in my adult life, particularly in my young adult life and this has cascaded into things that affect my life to this day.
That being said…
It doesn’t matter. It is irrelevant. As the stupid cliche goes…life is unfair. You need to just sit down one day, like I did, and say…yes…life is unfair and I have gotten a raw deal here. However I need to go forward from thispoint forward and make good decisions/deal with this the best I can. No more even thinking about the raw deal I started with. NOW…from this point forward…I deal with life from a solid, logical footing.
I know, not helpful…but I remember reaching that point in my life (much later than I should at 28) when I sat down and vowed that I was done taking shit in my life and from now on I demanded a certain level of…hmmm…non-shitiness…non-this-is-a-joke-ness from others and myself. It was hard - very hard but looking at myself now I am in a better situation that I ever dreamed of that I would be 20 years ago.
Oops, I knew it but didn’t make the connection.
You know that happened in “Lost” right? Everything in that post happened in “Lost.”
Actually I don’t think it is tremendously insulting to compare the OP, humorously, with a famous fictional character in a wheelchair, who actually does lot of interesting things and is well respected. And whose problems start with a whopping dose of daddy issues. Which the OP obviously has.