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What Am I Missing Here?
Feb. 21st, 2016 09:01 amPhone tussle with Max last night that put me in a baaaaaaad mood.
We’d just spent 20 minutes talking about his depression – which I don’t think is depression – and I was in the upteenth iteration of, But everyone on the planet has a hard time with law school or any type of professional or graduate program, and he snapped, “Why do you keep saying that? Do you think that’s useful? What relevance does that have to me?”
And I just thought, Fuck you, and wanted desperately to slam down the phone, but, of course, one can’t hang up on one’s offspring.
But you know what? ENOUGH.
I have these two kids, and neither of them will ever have the slightest appreciation of who I am or what I have to offer, and that’s just the way it is.
Some families aren’t like that, but I have a feeling that most are.
You can get angry and bitter about it, or you can let it go.
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New York seems a lot crazier than the last time I spent a protracted period of time here. I saw this in the subway:
How is this a business model? What am I missing here? Don’t most therapists (like 99.9% of the rest of the world) have smartphones with texting capacities already? Why on earth would you need an app to text your therapist?
We’d just spent 20 minutes talking about his depression – which I don’t think is depression – and I was in the upteenth iteration of, But everyone on the planet has a hard time with law school or any type of professional or graduate program, and he snapped, “Why do you keep saying that? Do you think that’s useful? What relevance does that have to me?”
And I just thought, Fuck you, and wanted desperately to slam down the phone, but, of course, one can’t hang up on one’s offspring.
But you know what? ENOUGH.
I have these two kids, and neither of them will ever have the slightest appreciation of who I am or what I have to offer, and that’s just the way it is.
Some families aren’t like that, but I have a feeling that most are.
You can get angry and bitter about it, or you can let it go.
###
New York seems a lot crazier than the last time I spent a protracted period of time here. I saw this in the subway:
How is this a business model? What am I missing here? Don’t most therapists (like 99.9% of the rest of the world) have smartphones with texting capacities already? Why on earth would you need an app to text your therapist?
