I remember growing up being jealous of my friends who had working class parents. (Blue collar suburban town.) They drove daddy’s old car, lived comfortably at home, ate mommy’s chicken tendies, smoked weed with daddy’s money, and had all the time in the world to party and fuck-off at the mall. They spent their days indulging. In contrast: I spent my days working to survive the day I graduated high school. I remember talking about my work and many of them acted like it was below them. As if it was shameful to get on one’s hands and knees and scrub a toilet or bathtub. Children really are privileged to grow up feeling this way.
Some of them are privileged to go right off to a university in Buttfuck NoWhere to drink and party. Man, what a luxury to fuck off where your only requirement in life is to finish courses with a passing grade living on someone else’s dime with all lively necessities handed to you.
Everything they had is what I needed. Well into our 30s now, these lazy degenerate kids are still living at home eating mommy’s food and still smoking weed with daddy’s money. Comfort has completely ruined any possible hope for their future. It’s funny: Those who started doing psychedelics would have had you convinced that were on the verge of some groundbreaking discovery or sense of enlightenment that was going to put them on the fast track toward some sort of unforeseen road to great success. The sense of salesmanship of those privileged with countless hours to spend high on drugs in the comfort of someone else’s house is a topic I could go on about at great length.
Today I am blessed to have everything I wish I had when I left high school: A car that runs, money for fuel, a support network, a roof over my head, a family, and a job that does more than pay the bills. It took years to build what most teenagers are handed so freely and I think about this often. Comfort may have destroyed my peers but it’s something I’ve never known. Spent too much time as a semi-transient sleeping on couches, under tables, and in attics.
As I reflect and realize I am finally offered a chance to be comfortable, I cannot help but continue pushing forward. Some of you have been privileged enough to waste your days drinking and drugging and I’d like to use this time to sway you not to be undone by your own comforts. Each day you are alive, you are giving ample opportunity to make friends, start a business, learn a trade, read books, attend school, find a wife or buy your wife flowers, and build your body into that of a god. But please, I ask: Don’t be a lazy middle class spoiled and entitled little shit. boo hoo, my life is so fucking hard, I’m gonna spend my free time (which is a blessing btw) drinking
So those of you out there on this wittle old website who’ve spent your life working, I commend you.
[ + ] WNwoman
[ - ] WNwoman 2 points 9 monthsSep 1, 2024 20:17:53 ago (+2/-0)
I worry about this now raising my own children. We are very comfortable and able to give our kids a great lifestyle. It’s natural to want to give your kids a better life than you had but I think no struggle ends up hurting them in the long run. I don’t want to raise spoiled little assholes.
I think this is why all the kids have mental illness now. We are so comfortable that we invent problems. Everyone is depressed or ADHD or autistic or has anxiety. I didn’t have the luxury of lounging in bed if I was depressed. If I wanted to eat I had to hustle.
I’d love advice from experienced parents on how to ensure my privileged kids don’t turn in to soft adults that never launch.
[ + ] Jfjdjsksk
[ - ] Jfjdjsksk 4 points 9 monthsSep 1, 2024 20:27:23 ago (+4/-0)
Daily chores.
Daily excercise.
Take care of the animals.
Family garden.
Teach them to be self reliant.
Make them talk to adults as well.
We have no video games or cable, it forces them to read...
My son has it good, but i let him know he has to find his own way and he needs to associate with kids that have interests outside tv and video games.
Don't cave on tv, video games or a phone. That will solve 90 percent of your problems with fucked up entitled kids.
[ + ] Trope
[ - ] Trope [op] 0 points 9 monthsSep 1, 2024 20:37:28 ago (+0/-0)
What’s the policy on movies? When I have kids, I’d like to spend family time on the occasional old film. No streaming bullshit but a cassette or DVD. I don’t want them to have access to any screen unless supervised.
[ + ] Jfjdjsksk
[ - ] Jfjdjsksk 0 points 9 monthsSep 1, 2024 20:58:00 ago (+0/-0)
My son gets socially ostracized by other kids because we dont watch this shit.
Also, the libtards kids ostracized him when i forcefully removed 4 junkies from the forest next to his primary school. Me and a retired 63 year old fire man were the only ones who stood up to these guys.
Kids raised right and with morals will have the struggle you seek, it might not be financial, but being a straight White Christian in todays world will show him a thing or two about people. It will build character.
I am rambling.
He will see degenerate shit at their friends house. You can't control that. But you can deprogram from the messages. Talk to your kids every fucking day.
[ + ] Trope
[ - ] Trope [op] 0 points 9 monthsSep 1, 2024 20:35:38 ago (+0/-0)
Would love to hear from experienced parents. Fortunately for us, there are books out there written by men who are older, wiser, and more experienced. My next book might be a parenting book. For all I know, it might have lessons on ideas I’ve never even pondered.
I have a buddy about my age. Had a good chat with him. Unfortunately, while I’ve made the effort to procure a good future for myself and the children I’d like to have, my body has pretty much written off his own life and is inadvertently living through his children. I don’t think this works because a man must lead by his example and his children will eventually learn his is miserable deep inside.
[ + ] Gowithit
[ - ] Gowithit 0 points 9 monthsSep 1, 2024 20:48:13 ago (+0/-0)
until you see them struggle. I would if I could give my kids everything trope complained about those kids getting. How were the parents raised? just beat the spoiled out of them later. Believe me struggling doesnt prevent them from turning into assholes. They will still make faces when asked to do something.
[ + ] albatrosv15
[ - ] albatrosv15 0 points 9 monthsSep 1, 2024 21:07:33 ago (+0/-0)
[ + ] ProudRebel
[ - ] ProudRebel 1 point 9 monthsSep 2, 2024 06:38:46 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey
[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 1 point 9 monthsSep 1, 2024 21:17:13 ago (+1/-0)
I can relate. I’m the proud owner of a GED, a criminal record, four houses, a business (my second, 25 years combined) an awesome wife and successful adult children.
My siblings with two, four and six year degrees are sucking at life.
[ + ] albatrosv15
[ - ] albatrosv15 1 point 9 monthsSep 1, 2024 21:40:13 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey
[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 1 point 9 monthsSep 1, 2024 22:04:56 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] albatrosv15
[ - ] albatrosv15 0 points 9 monthsSep 1, 2024 20:58:04 ago (+1/-1)*
Why work? To make life better. What about next generation? What are you going to give to your children? Nothing? So they can feel the same greatness as you had? No, you will give everything to your children, including your hard worked resources you gathered. Then your children will be spoiled brats. And when your children won't be spoiled brats, because you instilled hard morals unto them, their children will be spoiled, because they will have even more resources, because your children worked hard.
Or do you want civilization never to advance? Just work and destroy resources with each generation so we could WORK? I mean, my father in law is exactly like this. Work, while things should never advance, because children would be spoiled. He spawned in siberian camp and his life was hard, i understand, but that's exactly how people think when their life was hard. They feel bitterness about their situation and want other people suffer.
Besides, it's a self-correcting issue. The spoiled brats will lose everything, then next generation has to work again.
[ + ] Gowithit
[ - ] Gowithit 1 point 9 monthsSep 1, 2024 21:00:07 ago (+1/-0)
lol
[ + ] Trope
[ - ] Trope [op] 1 point 9 monthsSep 1, 2024 21:35:19 ago (+1/-0)
I don’t think my children should have a hard life but I want to raise them not to be spoiled. Seems the challenge will be understanding and teaching that balance. And this lesson must be passed on for the generations that follow.
I look back and I wonder why no lessons were passed down from previous generations.
[ + ] albatrosv15
[ - ] albatrosv15 1 point 9 monthsSep 1, 2024 21:42:34 ago (+1/-0)*
[ + ] Trope
[ - ] Trope [op] 0 points 9 monthsSep 1, 2024 22:05:13 ago (+0/-0)
64 houses will only be good if the lessons are passed down. So perhaps it is the lessons that are most valuable. After all, would you rather have a sack of gold or the wisdom to earn the gold? Which I believe is one of the stories in The Richest Man in Babylon.
[ + ] albatrosv15
[ - ] albatrosv15 0 points 9 monthsSep 1, 2024 22:23:38 ago (+0/-0)
This is kinda blogpost, but my genes are very mixed(estonian, russian, tatar, swedish, german) and thus, my life has been very mixed smorgasbord. Maybe that's why i understand cyclical nature, because i have seen many cycles in my life. I mean, i should be an engineer, because i have those papers, but i feel that only ants specialize. Humans shouldn't.
Only one child. I love him more than my wife.
[ + ] albatrosv15
[ - ] albatrosv15 0 points 9 monthsSep 1, 2024 22:35:07 ago (+0/-0)
Again, ants specialize. Humans shouldn't. Great humans shouldn't.