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[quote=Anonymous]God, my mother was like this. Would sing loudly and bang pots and pans around 10am to wake me up in the summer. Made me have a job every single summer starting when I was 15, including summers when I was in college, and winter breaks too once I started college and had 3 week long winter breaks (she’d tell neighbors I was available to babysit, she’d make me pick up hours at the coffee shop I used to work at, etc). To her, downtime was evil apparently. 
I eventually graduated college and was going to grad school for my field. I came home for the 3 months before grad school started. She started at me again trying to make me pick up shifts at the coffee shop so I “wasn’t sitting around doing nothing in the prime of my life.” I just moved out and in with a friend who was starting her job right after graduation. I WAS in the prime of my life and what I wanted to do was sleep, see my friends, paint, train for a marathon, and read novels by the pool. This is what I did and it was the best, most life changing 3 months of my life because I had a few months to just BE, and think about my goals and what I wanted out of life. I still resent her for making me wait until I was 22 to have any free time.

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