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CHILD WARNING Stop posting people shooting themselves in their fucking head

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My good friend shot himself in the head, and his brother was a huge alcoholic. Both were overly sheltered, huge Christian family, and straight A students. I blame their parent's. Their parents made them hate their life.

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It's all that having to go home and sleep so you can get up for church every Sunday morning, while all your friends can just keep on partying on Saturday night.

Been there, done that, lived that life in my teen years. Missed many a good time because of church. My much older and very religious brother was pushing me to become a Wisconsin Synod Lutheran pastor for a while in my senior year of high school. For those who don't know, the Wisconsin Synod Lutheran church is only a little bit less conservative and uptight than the Mennonites.

I didn't kill myself, but I had some very, very rough Sunday mornings dealing with my mom and her absolute insistence that I go to church every friggin week. "Get up!! This room smells like a brewery!! You are not going to drink and carouse all night and miss church!! Get up!! Get out of that bed!!". Then she'd leave me alone for a couple minutes, during which I was instantly sound asleep again, then she would come back and repeat the same speech.

This happened almost every Sunday from when I was age 15 to 19. I always ended up in church, with a whale of a hangover. I left religion behind the moment I moved out of her house at age 19 years and 3 months, mostly out of spite. My mom has been gone for 11 years now. I loved her dearly, but I never forgave her for being so inflexible in the religion department. On one Sunday morning when I was about 18, I quoted the line from the Billy Joel song, "I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints, because the sinners are much more fun." She did not like that one bit.

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