24 years old female. My life has two parts: Happy with obstacles for 14 years and been miserable for the other ten years.
Before you read, please don’t forget that my experiences that I’m going to write, happened when I was a child and in my teens. So evaluate them according to my age that time.
Happy with obstacles happenings:
* At the age 4, my parents divorced. I’m with my mom since then..
* My father was away in another city but we adored each other so much and he was proud with all the qualities I have. We spent the summer holiday and semesters together. I stayed at his’
* My mom is a tasteful and generous woman with a kind heart but has always had some anger and control issues.
* I loved my school and classmates. I had 5 close friends and 1 best friend for 7 years, they mattered to me much.
* I grew up with 2 same-aged neighbours’ daughters from a very young age till 12. They were my father’s neighbours. We shared a very special bond.
* I also had two male friends, old family friends’ sons. We grew up together too. I saw one of them more and other one much less. The one I saw more, used to call me a word meaning ”friends till death”. (My native language is not english).
* Also I was and have been always in love with the other boy whom I saw less. I shared it with him when I was 14 and he was 15. We sort of started dating but our families began to see each other less by then, we were away from each other and didn’t really work out plus the other half of my life – the cursed one – had already begun so..I will explain this one more in the ”the other cursed half of my life” section.
* At the age 10 I was teased and bullied by some spoiled girls in a holiday place for 3 months, every evening went back home from the swimming pool crying about it. Their reason was..according to them..I was naive and different, acted weird. Honestly all I wanted to be friends with them. I value people, friendship and love more than anything. I knew they were mean but..I tried and tried..This one is particularly important to explain myself.
Miserable one which got worse day by day for years:
* At the age of 12, my father died unexpectedly. He had been cancer but had some kind of doctor phobia..No-one, even himself, knew it. In two months..he died with fear of me being without him. I could have gotten through it if it hadn’t gotten worse. It was like the beginning of all.
* At 13, my best friend at school suddenly stopped talking to me and ended our friendship for no reason. We had some problems like me being jealous sometimes or irresponsible but none of them was something this big and for years It stayed like that.
* 12 was the last age that I saw the neighbours’ girls cause of death of my father. Later I heard one of them whom I was closer with moved to Scotland in her teens. So I kind of lost them too.
* Then this happened: Mom had a rich boyfriend since the divorse and he upsetted and cheated on her. So mom left him, sold the house that he gave her and bought a new house far away from the city’s center and my lovely school. So I had to begin a new school and this happened at the time my best friend ended our friendship. So plus her, my father and the girls..I lost my school too..lost the opportunity to spend the last year of it at the time when I most needed it and everyone there. New school, new people while I was dying to go back.
* Some bully happened at 14-15 too, at the new neighbourhood. They also thought I was too naive, couldn’t defend myself, knew nothing about being a cool person. (I guess they found badass-bad girl type cool.)
* Mom got a new boyfriend, the new school was ok and mom started a business with him. I could have gotten through all too..
* Next year I started high school. I liked the new school very much and had nice relationships with people..but was never deep or real as much as the ones that I still love so so much. I was allright back then.. trying to make things better..
* Then suddenly this happened: Like I wrote before, I have always been in love with that boy I kind of grew up with. Shared it with him at 14 then began high school. He was away from me, didn’t work out and I began dating someone at high school. Like I said trying to make things better. I didn’t share it with my other male friend – the closer one – cause I didn’t want him to tell it to the one I love. I had been three months when my male close friend discovered it then..I lost him too. I told him the reason and my feelings through the one. But he called me a liar, told my date to the one. Ugly and unnecessary things happened since then. Like they called me a cheater, liar, untrustworthy and even a slut.
* After that I broke up with my date immediately and tried to win them back. They were overreacting and I tried to explain myself over and over again to my friend face to face and to the one I love..with messages. The one used my love to take advantage of me, invited me to his grandmom’s empty house to live his first sexual experinces with me. I went there just to be able to talk to him face to face or somehow explain myself. He kept his silence and just wanted to experience sexual things and I did things he wanted to get closer to him. I didn’t lose my virginity though.
* And after that they called me worse things. Whore etc. The one I love even said this ” your father is restless in his grave seeing his daugher to be such a slut. ” ”Or judged my mother with his boyfriend choices and implied her to be a slut too. So I became depressed and begin taking antidepressants. My grades started to fall and I couldn’t be a doctor. (I wanted to be doctor and my grades were well.) I attended a college to study german language but It wasn’t what I wanted.
* Before attending the college, while high school I lost faith in god, started to question too much. Then everyday at school I slept on the desk, was very unhappy and no one seemed to understand me.
* Then my mom and his then-boyfriend sank the business and lost all the money. Mom got scared and turned back to the rich one. He treated her so bad infront of me a few times. But me and mom couldn’t do a thing cause we had a little money.
* In college I started to be very rebellious to god and values, I had unhealthyly sexual relationships. I bullied some nice people, even teachers. I even remember I yelled at god cursing him. It was bad. I used to pray every night before sleep.
* Then things went mad like I thought I didn’t belong to this ordinary people’s world. I mean I felt like I was different. I thought I had to be some kind of celebrity and had to show myself to the world. Well now I can see why I felt like that: Loneliness and desperation to prove myself.
* With those unhealthy feelings and thoughts inside, I got a job in tourism which was my father’s work sector..Tried to save my life and mom’s. But couldn’t do it psychologically. I cried everyday before and after work cause it was unbearable to me to handle a work at that time because of everything. I left the job, then I left my college and went through a breakdown.
* In 2010, I got the news: Mom had cancer too like my father. The disease was in its first phase so she could be saved. But I was crying almost everyday. Even my grandmom was talking behind my back gossiping to people like I was crazy, unsuccesful and useless. I had no one understood me except my mom but she had cancer and getting worse due to my depression. Plus as I wasn’t able to work,and mom was like a beggar because of me, asking for money from people like her rich ex, her gossiping mom etc.
* Mom ended seeing her family due to believing them being two faced (Her mom, sisters etc.) .Well she’s right.
It’s been 5 years; Mom is still alive but is going to have her 4th surgery and chemotherapy. Except her praying and huging, I’m alone crying almost everyday at home. No social life, no family, no future..maybe waiting for mom to die. I left that unhealthy sexual life and I believe in god again. Praying mostly. I feel like I’m getting closer to the monster called death so slowly and painfully even though I’m not sick physicially. I spend my days thinking how to end this suffering and get back my life. Maybe death? I’m not strong enough to work, even to study cause I’m fiercely afraid of my mom dying, and staying all alone.
7 comments
Sorry for what you experienced in your life and continue experiencing…
I hope that suffering will end and good time will come.
Science is too advanced now.
Don’t worry.your mom will live.
Hope you get all things you need for her treatment.
Have a good life… 🙂
Thank you for your comment, the first thing I’ve checked this morning has been comments..I was a little afraid that people would find me overreacting or something cause some people really do it to me, they find me kind of oversensitive..And that isn’t helping at all. But I think people in this site can understand me better. That was my hope before sharing my story. I’ve never denied that I’m sensitive and emotional, mostly more than usual people. And I guess that is the problem itself. But not as being ”over”sensitive, it’s people that are not really sensitive or emotional even though we’re human. Human means developed IQ and also EQ. Developed EQ brings understanding.
As for my mom, like I wrote, she’s an agressive type and really sad for what I’ve been through. So even though the science has improved a lot, not mentioning our money problems, the crucial cure is happiness and being relaxed. Also she is overwrought and sometimes out of control. Sometimes I hate my existence because of the sadness I’ve been causing to her. But thank you reminding me about the science. Now It’s breakfast time. I try to keep things as usual as possible like breakfast or going for a walk in nature etc. even though I have a hard time even to take a shower.
I wish everyone the best. Again thanks.
Hey,
Youre 24 and have already been through a lot. Like a fucking lot than other people wil ever experience.
And youre still here, be it for your mum(i hope she gets well soon), or for a tiny bit of hope left in you.
And that only proves one thing, and one thing only.
YOU ARE STRONG.
AND YOU WILL SURVIVE.
Someone once said, sadness and happiness are the two ends of the same coin.
So dont you worry, your time will come.
You will be happy one day.
And ofc, here on SP you can talk to me or anyone else.
Take Care.
Tiny bit of hope but very strong. I can feel it more thanks to you, other comments and some positive things has happened today. THANK YOU.
”Someone once said, sadness and happiness are the two ends of the same coin.”
Yes. Sadness and pain are the warning signs and stimulants to find the solution to be happy. That’s what I say haha.
Thank you so much again.
Wanted to answer to this one for quite a while, but i’ve had a splitting headache, which seems like it’s not going away, so wth.
You’ve endured some pretty hard circumstances, and i’m really sorry about that. Life for some people is plagued by problems (some more than others), and imho there’s always something new to worry about, but the fact that you’re still trying after everything that has happened already talks lots of you (good things). You’ve proven over and over that you’re capable of overcoming obstacles if you set out to do so, so if you want to, you can (again) overcome this. Sadly, i can’t say if things are actually going to improve (i guess no one can) but i do hope that they do, eventually… you really sound like you deserve it.
As for your mom, hopefully everything will solve eventually, medical care has advanced quite a lot in the past few years, so it’s pretty likely she’ll do fine.
Do feel free to comment and post here all you want, it does help some of us, it’s a way to at least get things of our chest. Again, i do hope things improve for you and for your mom.
Sorry hear about your mom. Hope surgery goes well.
Thank you so much.