Reading charlie's journal

So I’ve been going to college for a while now, nearly three years. And I’ve spent most of that time making my own grades, and paying my own college bills. But this year, the first year I actually have other things to do besides sit around the house with my family over break, my family will miss me. My parents made me food to take to school, and bought me gas. They even bought me clothes!?!? And this doesn’t even include what I got for Christmas. I my parents hardly ever buy me anything. Where did all this come from?

I’m not complaining about getting all that stuff, but I hate the attention. And they didn’t just buy me stuff, they talked to me, they wanted to hear my opinions, they took me out to dinner. They talked to my friends and actually listened. And that’s great. It’s just what I wanted…six or eight years ago. But I have less than a year of college left, and now I’m the one who is too busy for them (not to mention I have to start thinking about starting a real life for myself). It all just seems like an odd mood swing to me. Maybe they have some spare time now, or maybe they paid off the house, I don’t know. But something has changed in my family. And it’s a great change – whatever it is – but it just seems like it happened too late.

And as I sit here eating a piece of the pie my dad made, it tastes pretty good.

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Maybe they food was poison and now you're going to die. Actually, I would imagine there's a good chance that once I post this, you'll already be dead. My deepest condolences.

No, but seriously... parents are children in a sense, and they don't alway show their children attention like they should, and when they realize it it's usually too late. Perhaps they're trying to compensate for not always buying you things or talking to you. You're getting older and they want to know you the best they can while they can.

For my next trick, I shall make you all disappear.

Maybe they food was poison and now you're going to die. Actually, I would imagine there's a good chance that once I post this, you'll already be dead. My deepest condolences.

This part made me laugh. Thanks for brightening my day :).

Yeah, I know they're trying to compensate. The irony is that now I don't have time for them.

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That's how it goes sometimes unfortunately. My dad used to work in Milan (and we live in Turin) for several years, and my mom and I lived alone for the whole week but the weekend. This went on until I was something like 17, when my dad quit his job and started another one in Turin.

He still moves quite a bit every now and then, but not like before. I guess he must have realized that he has not seen her daughter grow, because even when he was home he was too tired or had to work to take care of me. I can count the times we played together or went out for a ride on the bike...

And then, when he realized how much he missed he tried to make up for that, but I had my life, my friends, the university and many other things to do. So now yes, he listens to me and my problems, but unfortunately time won't get back, and whatever we missed we missed.

Un bacio è un'apostrofo rosa scritto tra le parole "ti amo".