This is REALLY frustrating me right now ..

I HATE living at home with my parents right now. It is SUCH a pain and it is so frustrating to have to commute EVERY SINGLE day to class. I mean, it helps that I have Tuesdays off but that can only do so much.

York University has been, to be honest, a bitter sweet experience.

Let me explain.

I LOVE York. I love being there. All my awesome new friends are there. I love hanging out and I feel so free, but at the same time I know my responsibilities and so far I've been able to balance them out in a mature manner. My new friends have respected my schedule and I respect their plans. It's allowed me to do so much growing up in such little time.

The BITTER part? My parents can't seem to wrap their head around it. They believe that University is ALL school and NO fun. They wanted me to show up at school, do work and come home. On top of that, they don't seem to understand that I am under A LOT of stress to get A LOT of work done for SEVERAL classes, and their lack of sympathy is shown through them forcing their OWN values on me.

Whether or not they WANT to accept it.. I am an ADULT now.. I am 18 turning 19.

They STILL treat me like a niner in high school, and it's ridiculous. They get mad at me over stupid things. I'm over my text limit AGAIN? What would you EXPECT? You give me an 1000 SHARED limit between FOUR people .. How are you gonna expect me to stay WITHIN that while maintaining all the friends that I have? You REFUSE to get unlimited texts which just MAKES sense.

I am my OWN individual. You need to understand that we aren't going to agree on everything, and just because you are my parents that doesn't give you the right to dictate how I live my life. It's MY life. I should be able to have the choice to choose what I do. If I screw up, then I screw up. That's life, and I should be able to learn from my own mistakes instead of not being able to do what I want to do because you want to "be safe".

I'd rather be HAPPY and make mistakes doing what I WANT to do, rather than be depressed and be seemingly "flawless".

'Cause in MY opinion, it's NOT being perfect that makes life perfect in it's own way.

You always seem to close minded to accept anyone ELSE'S ideas and views on how to accomplish things, even though they work and can sometimes be even better than the ideas you had in mind.

Every time I try to explain myself to you, you always just get angry and tell me I'm talking back..

How are we supposed to connect when I can't even express my opinions without you criticizing and judging me? You are my PARENTS. You are SUPPOSED to hear me out and SUPPORT me.

Whatever..

Hopefully, I move out SOON because my friends seem to understand me MORE than you.

- Francis Frustration