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For nearly two decades, you have had your own personal punching bag, something to take your anger out on, something to smack around in the name of discipline, something to bully on a daily basis.
I used to think that people leave the schoolyard bully act behind when they settled down and had a child, but, as I grew older, I realized that they never truly leave it behind. I am reminded of this daily when you call me names, pull my hair, shove me against a wall.
While I am very grateful for the food you provide, the roof you put over my head, the things you buy me, I do not appreciate them being used against me. Please keep in mind that I did not ask for life, that it was your decision to have a child and it is your responsibility to provide for that child, that it is, in no way, my fault that you had a child.
Do not take your poor decisions out on me.
What was once a happy little girl with a passion for life has transformed into what you consider to be a failure, a freak, a worthless being. I am sorry that I have not lived up to your expectations. For once in my life, I am doing something I love, something I consider worthwhile, and I am sorry that you cannot be happy for me because you feel that I will be unsuccessful if I chase my dreams.
But, I will chase them. With or without your support. And I will become the strong woman I have always longed to be. The one that you never raised me to be.
And I feel sorry for you if you refuse to see that my current path is the one that will bring me the most happiness in life.
