Hello people. I am a boy of 16, I study in a sports school and I live only with my father - I have no siblings, my mother died when I was little. My father is a former athlete and he wants to somehow pass on to me all his passion and desire to win. The problem is not that he wants me to play sports, I like him too, but I feel like I'm in a barracks (or something like that). It makes me eat only certain foods and there are things I have never tried such as doner, pizza, chips or even french fries and many other things. I am forbidden to drink all kinds of carbonated drinks, all kinds of alcoholic beverages, and cigarettes cannot be mentioned (not that I am dying to smoke, but still). He wakes me up at 5:30 every morning and I have to go out by 5:45 to run.
After school I go to basketball. If we don't have a workout, he quickly thinks of something else. Every day after I get home I have to do exercises - abdominal presses, push-ups, squats, etc .. After I'm done with this I have very little time to have dinner (which is under an hour, like any other meal of the day), yes I take a bath and study (for which he also doesn't compromise), because according to him I should have gone to bed by 10:30 - 11 and he is right because I get up at 5:30. My only quiet time is at school when I don't have to do anything. There I can see friends - something I want to do, but I can't. I literally don't go out, my daily routine is training, training, and training again. When I compete and don't win first place, he says absolutely nothing, but he seems kind of disappointed. I only had one friend who asked us to break up a month later because we hardly see each other except at school, we didn't talk on the phone and we didn't write to each other because I don't have time for that.
When I grew up a little, he started making me donate blood once or twice a year, I know it's nice, but I don't like it. I don't feel well at all, I'm constantly tired, I don't sleep, I still eat the same healthy food, I don't go out, I don't play any computer and video games like normal children my age, I start to feel more afraid to always I'm the first and I can't tell him anything, because he'll probably be disappointed in me, and I don't want that to happen. I want to have a normal life, but I don't want to offend him in any way and I don't know what to do. I'm constantly tired, I don't sleep, I eat the same healthy food, I don't go out, I don't play any computer and video games like normal children my age, I start to feel more and more afraid to always be first and I can't tell him anything because he will probably be disappointed in me and I don't want that to happen.
I want to have a normal life, but I don't want to offend him in any way and I don't know what to do. I'm constantly tired, I don't sleep, I eat the same healthy food, I don't go out, I don't play any computer and video games like normal children my age, I start to feel more and more afraid to always be first and I can't tell him anything because he will probably be disappointed in me and I don't want that to happen. I want to have a normal life, but I don't want to offend him in any way and I don't know what to do.
1 wane4224 answered
I understand perfectly well that you want to relax a little and in the end now is the time. In the interest of truth, your father imposes on you a completely healthy, in every respect, way of life. Of course, it seems a little boring and monotonous to constantly rush, but in time you will realize that the real victories in this life come with a lot of work and a lot of perseverance. Which is the radical opposite of today's mantle where it occurs to you that you are perfect and that you deserve everything. and you deserve it now, right now. Of course, you hardly realize these things now. Calm down, that's normal :) What you don't realize is that it's extremely easy to deviate from the right path and turn your life so that in years to come you realize that he was wasted or in a lighter version - you made mistakes for which you and everyone around you will pay, for years. Even without realizing or classifying them as such then. He told your father that he would grind it for you, that's right. But the fact is that once you stop punishing yourself and destroying just to get it back, you'll know he was right. And I'm telling you this, not because I'm in the role of your father, but because I've been in your role and I'm speaking from personal experience. Now, before you play me and classify me as your father's sect, I'll tell you it's a little too much. It's great that he's trying to make you healthy when you're a kid. But on the other hand, perhaps protecting them too much deprives them of the basic right of every child to discover the world as it is. Sometimes this adventure ends with bruised knees, sometimes it ends with good memories that you will return with affection when you enter the incredibly cool life of adults. But in any case, now is the time to learn some lessons on your own and maybe your father, in your quest to build you as a leader, is doing you a disservice because you will grow up with the constant feeling that you have not lived your childhood, you have not did this or that madness. Which is the case when viewed from this angle. Indeed, a pizza or a fanta will not kill you or deprive you of first place in the next race. But technically, your father is right to ban you from these foods because a quick search on the net will tell you a lot about the effects of soft drinks, for example. And that they are far from as harmless as most people think. So, that my advice to you is to catch your father and sit down to talk, but seriously, like the big ones. I advise you to start the conversation by pointing out that you are very grateful to him for all the efforts he puts on you and his desire to make you a champion both in sports and in life. Every parent wants their child to be a "champion" or "champion", who understands it. Every parent wants to hear these words of recognition. and it is true, in your case. But you are still a child (well, teenager :)) and still want to feel at least a little like your peers, at least from time to time. That is, at least on Sunday to sleep, to play online with a friend (just do not choose some nonsense like GTA because your father will freak out, but if in the game you start shooting people on the streets right and for a cover you catch a whore to you service in the car: )) Or for example make him take you somewhere where you wanted to go but have not had time so far. In general, to do something that you personally like, not him. I don't believe he doesn't understand. It is quite normal to want time for yourself without his presence. Get together from the teacher and go to a hut or to the sea, for example. Such things. But really be careful what and how much you want. And you meanwhile download and watch a movie - "requiem for a dream". It may seem a bit extreme or brutal, but believe me, it's very easy to do that. Easier than you think, anyway. And if you still don't believe me, and you think you're sick, read the "Family" section. Many of your peers write there with completely different problems from yours. Regularly, children are left to fend for themselves, abused, or at best, so alien to their parents that not only do they no longer talk to each other, they don't even communicate. Until one day the parent realizes that his child has changed so much, and in some cases even hated that it was too late. Or it is very difficult to rebuild that connection, which in the beginning should never have broken.