What do I do? :(

[SimbasMate]

...............If you don't want them to hit you. Then don't spit on your brother.

[KovusTrueMate]

In my defense, I never said I spat on my brother. Recently, anyway.

[SnowyCheetah]

Uhm yeah... Running away is a bad idea. And don't do anything bad, and you'll be fine. Doesn't sound to me like your parents are hitting you for no reason...

[Panda-chan]

[quote="KovusTrueMate"]I dunno, New Jersey was the first place to come to mind! Plus my top 3 choices were New Jersey, California, or Alaska. Which is closer? :thoughtful3:[/quote]
OKay,, WTF. Alaska?? As I said previously, that's border crossing, which is ILLEGAL. Unless you want to swim the Atlantic and risk being eaten by whales or something ._. And California? You don't make smart decisions. Sure, it's a pretty cool state, but California has the same amount of grime and crime as NJ, or so I've heard.

Seriously, suck it up and quit whining about crap like this. Tons more people in the world are in way worse situations than you. People with no parents, no homes... or like, missing limbs. Yeah, compared to them, your life is luxury, even if you haven't got any friends. >_>

[Nakisisa]

Nice way to mince your words Amanda, but i know this is contradictory of what I said before, she's right, and it won't do you any good winding up in jail.

[KovusTrueMate]

FYI, I have family in California. And there's nothing about border crossing anywhere on the internets that I know of. Oh, I have so much work to do.

[Azdgari]

Don't run away. =P

I mean, what can I say? Stuff sucks for you right now. Stuff's sucked for me before. When I first came to boarding school? I learned the meaning of depression: I had my birthday the second week. I knew nobody. I got a card from my parents and celebrated alone in my room with some airheads. It sucked. Not exactly a great birthday.

Things look up though. You'll find that there are people who will be your friends. And your family? They love you. It sounds like its tough love, but believe me, they love you. My parents have never hit me, but I have friends who have been hit with golf clubs (yowch!). It's because they want the best from you. They love you enough to work every day, provide you with food, shelter, a life. Your siblings might rip on you, but believe me, they do love you. And as other people have said, you should look around--you do have it good compared to a lot of people. I went to Honduras on a mission trip, and I saw things that have changed me forever--your situation may seem grim, but it's paradise to the orphaned, starving children I saw on the side of the street, sniffing glue and selling themselves.

I don't know what I can do to inspire you. Sounds like you're where I was in the beginning of boarding school: lost with nobody to latch onto. But things will look up---things are always darkest before dawn. Find an outlet--mine was music. I don't know if you play an instrument, but pouring yourself into it will work wonders for you. Listening to music---there is so much inspiring music in the world! It can help so much. If you want, I can send you some songs that will leave you looking up; Get Me Away From Here I'm Dying by Belle and Sebastian would probably strike a chord with you. Tidal Wave by Owl City, James by Pat Metheny, and You're Not Alone by Saosin are some songs that might make you feel a little better. Give them a listen, Youtube them.

Most of all, just try to hold your head high. Things can and will get better for you, but only if you can shake off your hopelessness. Look around you, there's beauty and wonder and friendship and love everywhere in the world if you can just open your eyes wide enough to see it. So much of life is attitude, and once you get your head of the gutter, you'll see the rain has stopped and the sun is shining down at you.

"Seek not so much to be understood as to understand; not so much to have friends as to be one; not so much to be loved as to love."

[axx1000]

this probably isnt helping the no side of the argument (and im on the no side) but if you do run away or even get a job at all, go to a small restrant the delivers food and become someone that does under the counter food delivery, why you might ask, if your not a legal employe then they dont have to subtract any taxes or anything like that, but you also dont get benifits (like certain types of insurence). by doing that you could get around 20$ a delivery. This happened to my friend and he made quite alot of money

[KiarasMate]

Hmm, seems like the sincerity of this thread has started to go downhil, so time to lock up and head home everyone. ^^ You've gotten some sound advice out of this thread already though KTM and hope you take it to heart.