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Some parents had a daughter who could not achieve anything. They constantly told her that she couldn’t do anything, that she hadn’t achieved anything in life, and humiliated her in every possible way. Criticized for not being married. They complained that they gave her two higher educations, but she never got a normal job. How can a person be so inert and lack of initiative, the father and mother thought.
The woman worked as a telephone operator, then somewhere else, receiving a penny. Her parents loved her, paid for expensive psychologists, but the specialists could not help raise her self-esteem. And it all came to this.
Manicure set
One day, parents found a manicure set hidden under the bedspread in their daughter’s room. It was an expensive professional kit because my daughter decided to get into nail design. She accumulated this money from her meager salaries, which was barely enough, purchased it and hid it like some kind of thief, obviously understanding how her parents would react to such a purchase.
And so it happened. The discovery caused a crazy storm of emotions in the parents, they screamed with wild cries: “How dare you spend so much money on this nonsense ?!” They began to ask their daughter what it meant, and, having fairly put pressure on the girl, they heard the answer. The daughter admitted that she really likes this profession and she has been watching videos on YouTube for a long time and even signed up for online courses. Parents expressed their opinion that a decent woman would never do such a thing. This is a humiliating, vile occupation, because nails are a source of various infections. And in general, how could one spend such money without consulting?!
And the girl took the set back to the store. Just as I once took away a beautiful youth coat, fashionable bright shoes, “in which normal girls don’t go.” She always dreamed of a dog, but after listening to a lecture from her parents, she “took it back to the store” and her dream of a pet. She took her possible lovers to the same store, because the mother always found a lot of compromising evidence on this boy, who did not even suspect what kind of debate was going on behind his back. Dreams of becoming an artist were handed over to the same store.
Thus, everything good that fell into the hands of the girl, she carried back. And this happens very often. They put pressure on a person, “you are a parasite”, “you live at our expense”, and as soon as he begins to move in some direction, a flurry of negative emotions falls upon him.
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So, “escaping from slavery”, it is important to quietly do your job. Hide your “manicure set”. It’s as hard as escaping the Shawshank. The protagonist was slowly picking the wall with a spoon. Do the same, stand your ground, fight for your dream. Do not get into conflict with those who put pressure on you, this is only their problem. Live happily and don’t betray your principles.