what can I do to make my life more interesting?
Hi. I’m 13. I live in Maryland. I hate it here. My life is so boring. There are all these things that I want to do, but I can’t because my family doesn’t want to. Some of these things are:
Travel to Australia, Africa, Asia; Attend more cultural events in nearby DC; See more theatre performances; Go to museums and art galleries more often
I know that I’m advanced for my age. My family is just soooo boring. They don’t want to do anything but stay home all weekend and I hate it. I know I’m too young to move out, but honestly, if I was 5 years older and living on my own, I’d be doing all of these things and more. What can I do to make my life more interesting. I also hate living in a suburb, but my dad says that we have to live here and we can’t move because I go to like a #1 school in the country. I want to move really badly to New York or California, and I’d even consider Massachusetts, Oregon, or Washington State. I tell my parents that I’d like to do these things and they say either
Do them with friends (which is impossible because two 13/14 year olds can’t go to another country together, go to DC together, go to a theatre performance together, or museums or galleries together, because there would have to be some parent involvement and my parents want to have nothing to do with it)
or Do them when you’re older (which, I will, but I want so badly to do them now).
I hate my life. I hate my school. I have very few friends and no friends at school, and my age limits me from doing all these things I want to do. My parents tell me that these are the best times of my life and I just don’t realise it, but I am 100% sure that this is one of the worst times of my life. They say “Wait until you have to go out into the work world” and I am looking forward to doing that, actually. I am doing everything I can to make sure that I have to spend as little time in this area as possible. I figured it out that I can live here for 2 more years if I study abroad in 11th grade, and skip 12th by doing summer courses in English and Math the summer after 11th. I plan on going to live in Europe for what was supposed to be my 12th grade year and then going to a good college and studying French, German, and Russian. Then, I plan on becoming a translator/interpreter and living in Europe or maybe Canada or a more interesting place in the US. I don’t like my family that much, because they are boring. The only interesting person in my family is my grandma, and she is so cool. She is a multi-millionaire. She lives in New York City. She has so many college degrees. She travels to Europe all the time and even owns a cafĂ© in New York. Oh, and she used to live in France and speaks fluent French, she went to China for about a month, and she’s been to every continent, too. I beg my parents to let me move to New York and live with her, but my dad says that NY City schools are bad, and I’m like “Hello, private!” but, he wants me to stay here. I just want to turn 16, so then, I can start going to New York and other places on a regular basis (not so I’ll be able to drive, because cars are bad for the environment. So I can take trains to New York without my parents and because I’ll be allowed on planes alone then). Oh, yeah, and I hate my school because our subjects are so boring, except French.
English-Okay, I speak the language fluently and I use relatively good grammar.
Math-I have thought it over many times and translators don’t need math. Yes, everyone needs basic math, but I’m taking algebra courses here, which you don’t need.
Science-I really don’t care about all this. Leave it to Scientists. It confuses me so much.
History-I should love History and I actually do, but not what I’m being taught. I loved it in the last two years, I did geography and studied the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Europe, Russia, Canada, South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. However, now I am spending the year studying American history which is a very short history and it doesn’t make sense that I got 2 quarters of European history (which is over 4000 years long), but I spend 1 year studying American history, which is about 400 years long.
Reading-It’s the same as English. I don’t know why I have 2 separate classes, one called Reading and one called English. Well, anyways, I can read and I do read travel guide books, art books, theatre books, and language books a lot.
So, there you have it. I’m dissatisfied with my life and I want to know what I can do to make it more interesting, because it’s just going really crappy right now.
I’m not Christian. I never have been, have never had the desire to become on, and I never will. Religion is not the issue here.
I’m Jewish, by the way.
