Yeah seriously. Sometimes parents are harsh, but it's better than nothing. My mother abandoned me when I was 13. She slept around on and divorced my father, but first she convinced him to consolidate everything on our house.
Which my father and I built over the course of 3 years. During this time he worked 3rd shift, he'd go in at 10 PM, get off at 8 am, work on the house till 3 pm, sleep till 9 pm. Repeat. And after a year of trying to get his sleep back to normal on first shift, she leaves him because he's not been there enough. He's only paid for anythings she's ever wanted.
So we ended up losing the house, and dad's financial situation = Fucked. Hardcore.
We move into some shitty lil broken down shack. No I don't mean a rough house, I mean a damn shack. As in one of the walls is old rough cut lumber put together, and another is ply-wood. I had to bath with rags, and we heated water on a coleman stove. I lived there a year.
That summer after school I left my father,at the age of 16, and was homeless. I had a friend let me work at his computer shop. and in payment he let me sleep on his couch at night in the shop. I got to eat once every few days when someone had leftovers they had brought there. It was also the hangout place of my friends. I did that for 3 months, until fall hit. Then my father informed me he'd found a small house which was nice enough for us to move into. SO we moved into this rundown lil house.
I think Meth was cooked there once, because it always smelt funny and I itched alot. It sucked horribly. Well I went through living there for 6 months, then stayed with a good friends grandparents till the end of my Senior year. I worked when I could and barely got by. At the end of this summer, I moved down here to where I lived now.
I asked my mother to let me live with her while I took a year off school. I pay 200 dollars a month rent, the 2 bedroom apartment is 575 a month. She has a live in boyfriend who pays rent as well. I am working a 30 hour a week job, because thats all I can find. I'm trying my hardest so save money, and still get to eat. I got one pair of nice pants, and one pair of nice shorts. The rest are un wearable in public. My friends consist of people over the internet,all of which mean more to me than they realize. I do pay a cheap cell phone bill and internet. It's struggling pretty bad. I'm living off Ramen.
Where is my father during all this? Doing pretty shitty. Because he's tryin to recover financially from a 80k housepayment he couldn't make. Why didn't he sell the house you wonder...?
Read what it took for him to build it. It'd be hard for me too.
The moral of my long ass post:
Appreciate your parents and love them, because there are tons of people out there who wish they were you. Oh what I would give to have a mother who cared more about me than her rent money....
I'll be lucky to make it into college. /sigh
