I always feel like that word is an urban legend.
why? partially because I have to keep doing a little self defense dance against them and its getting old quick.
When I let my guard down I get hurt... and when i think that .. for some reason things are going to be okay it isnt.
The adults I looked up to as a child are just as petty and selfish as anyone else.
We all have qualms, you cant chose your family. Which is why I have to keep taking up arms and dropping people like hats. I know I'm not an innocent to this and even in my time i've done some stupid things but I always feel as though they fail im comparison to what I've had to witness.
My mother;
my father;
my aunts
my grandmother;
I have to put this on blast because i know there are other people like me out there with fucked up families and NO ONE wants to talk about it.
No one wants to acknowledge when their "elder" has done wrong to preserve the name.
when no one even upholds just that.
I am so tired of crying because I feel like there arent isnt anyone to talk to within my own immediate family.
I'm tired of being pushed up front to deal with issues and then being pushed back to the back of the line again because one of my aunts wont get off her fucking high horse.
I'm tired of secrets first and foremost, and the secrets I was forced to keep when i was little.
"dont tell mama we didn't feed twinkie."
You are fucking evil and I had to live with that.
I had to live with it, and i reply that nightmare night after night knowing that the only way out is to start anew.
and even then why would i want to raise kids knowing that they're never going to know their grandmother? and will My Dad even live long enough to see me have grand kids when clearly he has no kidneys and hasn't bothered putting himself on the waiting list.
My aunts heard about my grandfathers murder; I have to watch my father die in front of me.
he's slowly dying and theres no way to stop it but to depend on some cold machine to pump new fresh life into him.
(and for those knew to this game its called dialysis.)
play the worlds tiniest fucking violin for me .. I dont care.
I cant pretend that pushing this on the internet is going to make anyone feel bad for me much less give a shit. You can scroll down this screen and do nothing.
Nothing; just like the rest of my family members would do and where would that get me?
Back here writing little "save me" notes knowing that its only a waste of my time.
Because Mommy is taking a permanent vacay and My Dads trying to pursue his dreams before he kicks the bucket.
How is my out look on life supposed to be positive when my OWN RELATIVES are constantly trying to one-up me?
HOW FAIR is that?
and even then.. my dreams arent good enough; you couldn't pursue your dream so you have to trash mine.
im not a can of fucking preserves and this self preservation shit got old when i was 15.
I've gotten in trouble so many times for speaking my mind; in my family my grandma just accepts it. lets it go. accepts it.
She takes so much shit from all of my family members; me, her oldest daughter, she watches my youngest aunt and even my father.
She's too fucking good for us and I dont even want to fathom what will happen. what will happen when i dont have her guidance because good lord knows I wont have a family.
I fucking hate that this is where the Rocha name has gone.
I hate how white washed parts of my family has gone and to some extent I could be erased from their family album.
I dont even have a family album anymore
and All i have are the tear welts from the pictures that i've kept as a child and for what?
to remember that at one point.. I didn't have to consider where i'd live after high school?
I was left behind.
and when mama is gone its there again..
All I have are my friends.
Bless them for having to hear me rant/cry/choke. whatever.