"She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn’t really like life at all."
-Kurt Vonnegut (rip ), Slaughterhouse Five
Though maybe not one of his more mind-blowing thoughts, I thought it expressed really well how some of us can feel when our parents care more about our well-being than we do ourselves. He wrote it so simply but brilliantly as he so often does.
Song okay?
I sold a quart of blood
and bought half a pint of scotch
I’ll put more ‘intelligent’ ones up later….but this does have a certain ring of truth to it for me.
All of the Desiderata, the first part in particular (see text above av):
Desiderata Go placidly amid the noise and haste, Avoid loud and aggressive persons, Keep interested in your own career, however humble; Be yourself. Take kindly the counsel of the years, You are a child of the universe, Therefore be at peace with God, With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, Max Ehrmann, Desiderata, Copyright 1952. |
what is done out of love takes place beyone good and evil. – Friedrich Nietzsche