Pressure and Growing Up
Lately I have been having to come to terms with a harsh reality: I am growing up. Not that this was ever a shock to me, but I am caught in this weird stage of searching to be independent but not grown enough yet to be. This stage honestly is even worse when you have the constant pressure from your parents. This past year I have had to realize something most people my age and up realize; parents drive you crazy. Not the kind of crazy that makes you sulk in you room for hours because you were not able to go out on a school night kind of crazy, no, the kind of crazy where you are not adult enough for them but not open and dependent enough upon them either and they get mad either way. No one sends better mixed signals than my parents. One day they are upset because I do not touch base with them often or tell them how I am doing. The next, they are furious that I am unable to support myself fully and just "grow up." I have always been a rather communicative person. I am a Commun...