Anywho, I wanted to offload a few thoughts right now. I had an uncomfortable conversation with my parents last night. It started off with M scrolling through my fb feed after I left my phone on the coffee table.
I have a few friends our age who have kids right now and are a bit obsessed. Every few days, they'll upload a billion photos of recent baby birthdays or teething gums- I find all this a bit hard to relate to for obvious reasons.
Then M&D start talking about how some of their younger colleagues already have grandchildren etc. They looked at me and I said something like "probs not for another 8-10 years. Hassle me then."
AND THEN, D was like "E (cousin who's a few months younger) will probs give your uncle grandkids. Weird huh, him getting grandkids before me" (my uncle is a younger than my dad).
Maybe it was just me, but when he said that, I couldn't help but see a bit of his competitive side.
(Side track story: my dad is super competitive. And he also hates losing. When I was a kid, I used to always race him up stairs. Back in the day, he was probably 2-3 times my height, and when he raced me, he NEVER let me win. He ALWAYS ran at full speed up the stairs. That is how competitive he is lol. This probably nurtured my very brief career as a once-a-year athletics carnival sprinter back in high school. Thanks D.)
Anyway, I freaked out a bit but I learned that my cousin recently got a boyfriend. Recently. And her parents and my grandparents are already thinking about grandchildren. What the bloody hell. Way to jump the gun. Her mum is urging for her to get married (?) and D was like, that's not a bad idea.
K and I had our WTF faces on because in the past my family have been very vocal about their ideas on getting married early. "It's always a bad idea to get married earlier", "it's just based on a whim", "you'll come to regret it", etc (not that I was planning to anyway lol).
My parents are puzzling people, and I just had to share that.
I don't understand them.
They've never compared us academically or anything but now they're comparing this?!
I'm a bit scared tbh. They're a bit unpredictable. If this gets brought up again, I'm gonna bolt from room.
(Maybe they're subtly hinting to me that I should move out? Ahaha wishful thinking.)
BUT ARGHGRBGJCYT
I'm too young to have this conversation!
4 screams of joy:
ahahah thats hilarious. :p
I must say that food looks incredibly appetising.
The "i want grandkids" syndrome has begun. Have fun!
Food looks yummy =)
Although my parents have not talked about me having kids (yet), I DID get freaked out the other day when my DAD brought up the topic of dating/marriage and why I should get a move on. My dad has only done this once before, just to tell me to not date until after I graduate and find a job. Moral of story: All parents are weird.
PS. Haha your dad's hilarious =)
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