It's sooo fricken frustrating. Talked to my mum tonight and she spews all the talking points the lame news spews on a daily basis. She can't see the propaganda coming out of her mouth one bit. Then, she was talking about my brother will take a second shot because he wants to go on holiday in Italy next day to see the F1, and he will fricken do it, too. For a fricken holiday. And get this, she was pushing me to get it too, and when I asked why, she then spewed the selfish narrative on me and couldn't comprehend what I was asking.
I want to get a huge wet loofah and smack their heads in, there's just no saving these people. And it drives me nuts that I can't have any influence at all on their unending ticker tape narrative going on in their minds.
I just have to accept their decisions for the sake of my own sanity but at the same time, how can I give up on saving my family?
And I've been warning them to stock up on food but they are oblivious to the upcoming danger and keep trusting gov will save them.
IT'S VERY MADDENING!!!
The hardest part of this is the reality of NOT having a mutual respect and trust among those you've thought you held such closeness with. It's like they never did trust you with their lives and you've been fooled this whole time thinking that you could trust them. It's awful but at least now we all know who are frens are.
This is exactly right. Times like these do not create rifts--they EXPOSE rifts. Many are now finding that their families do not respect their views, their intelligence, nor their intentions. It is a tragedy that so many parents did not love their children enough to believe in them. Much could be averted if they had.
That's wrong thinking. How about you respecting that your parents made their decision for their lives as you did for yours. It's nothing to do with parents not loving their children. Think of all the wrong decisions you made growing up. Boomers grew up in such a different culture than now....young people today don't watch TV as a general rule and therefore more likely to find evidence of government corruption all over the world than people who use the same sources for news they always have.
Sadly, boomers are simply a narcissistic generation. They expected their parents to cater to and serve them, and now they expect the same from their children. They do not respect their own children, which is a form of un-loving.
Put it this way: if they cannot learn from their own children, how will they learn from anyone?
This is the final indignity of narcissism: to despise those who love you in favor of yourself and your pre-existing understanding.
Projection much...