Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Empty Space
In True Notebook the character Patrick was distanced from his father. Do you feel like you are distanced from someone (family member) and do you think it has affect on your life?
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Sometimes I feel like I am distant from my brother because he is in a bad crowd and I try my hardest to keep him out of it, but the influence witht hem is too strong.It affects my life in a bad way because I think of him often and it upsets me quite a bit.
ReplyDeleteNo i cant really say that i feel distanced from a family member. i can imagine though it would have a pretty big impact on my life. i may want to avoid who ever it is i am trying to be distanced from. I may not ever want to talk to him or her again. if i didn't ever want to talk to them again i may have very little contact with the person and it may not have very much impact on my life. it all depends on how you manage that distanced relationship i think. it could be very hard for the both of you, or it could be like that person never even exists in your world.
ReplyDeleteNot living with my Dad for many years makes me feel somewhat distant to him. When I think about it, it seems that I probably see him 10 times a year. Nor do we talk on the phone much. For some reason I do not feel extremely distant from him. I'm not really sure why this is but it hasn't affected me much or our relationship.
ReplyDeleteI think Patrick & I, our in the same boat as far as having some kind of distance with our fathers. My fathers in my life, but he's a workaholic & we just have personalitys that dont match. I talk more to my mother because she's more of the reasonable one & level headed. Where as my father seems like he always has to be right & overreacts to certain situations. One day our relationship will be closer though, I think its all a part of growing up though.
ReplyDeletei feel distant from my birth father's family. ever since he left me at the age of ten, we lost contact with the hundred of siblings that i had. i feel really lost because its like my step dad's family just became ours and its wierd because even though we act like a real family, we technically are not. i love them, but i still wish i was closer to my father's family.
ReplyDeleteI don't always get along with my parents, but we are the type of family where someone will throw a fit, be really, really mad at the other person, but realize that if anything goes wrong, the other will be there no matter what.
ReplyDeleteI always felt distanced from my Grandpa, but he lived during the Great Depression, and he has a really hard time understanding why I want to read so much. I hope I can be in good of physical shape as he his when I am 84.
I do wish my sister lived closer to me. She lives in MI still, and although we always get in fights, she would take long walks with me and go horse riding even in the cold weather.
My Grandma passed when I was 4 years old, never really giving me a chance to get to know her. Like Jimmy, remembering those special times we did get to share, is a hard thing for me to do.I really wish I could rewind the time and prevent my Grandma's death from happening, but I cant and that reality. Shes gone. I know shes in a happy place, but she is never to far, because she will always be in my heart.
ReplyDeleteYea Kristen, that is exactly how me and my family are. It is a real comforting feeling knowing that through all of the bad things, they are still there for me
ReplyDeleteI myself actually have been distant from alot of my friends lately. I fell like a lot of them dont have the same drive, and determination that I have. In a result of that I have stopped hanging out with alot of them. I think it was for the best though it gives me more time to focus on my goals, make sure i execute on reching them, spending time with my family, and work on my music. I know they might be upset, but I feel like if they really had my best interest in mind they would understand.
ReplyDeleteI use to have a distanced relationship with my dad. When i start to live with him i guess thats when all the problems happens. the situation that me and my dad went threw i believe made me stronger as person. My empty space was my dad we use not talk for months i belive threw everything i know that every girl needs there father. I forgave my dad and it seems our relationship got back to where it use to be and a little bit better. He understands me more.
ReplyDeleteIm also distanced from my mom her sickness i believe distanced us because with that you have to be able to understand the situation. I truly use to hate it everybody calling her crazy although we wasnt at close that was still my mom as i was younger i think thats when it got to me because i didnt understand why i wasnt getting the support i needed from her now that im older i pretty much know what would go on all this just make me stronger and now that i forgave my dad my empty space isnt there
Yes, I do feel like I am distant from someone, and that someone being my father. Not having him at my dispose has definitely had a great impact on my life. Since about the time I was born up until now my father has been in and out of incarceration. I definitely feel like my life would be different had he been around. With the help of the time that has passed I have learned how to deal with it, but there isn't a day that goes by that I dont think about it in depth.
ReplyDeleteI've also have been very distant from my father all my life because my mom left him along time ago and my father was in jail for many years sents I was born till I was nine years old. When I was nine years old it was the first time. I did not seen my father in mouths and he did not even go to my graduation when I passed High School.
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