I Lost All My Dreams Because Of My Mom | This Is My Story

hi everyone my name is ashley my mom is an alcoholic for the past few months things have gotten pretty weird let me tell you my music has always been my passion without it i would be nothing all i wanted was to be famous but whenever she heard me strum my guitar she'd yelled no one wants to hear that garbage and one night i was just finishing my first song when suddenly my guitar string broke so i tried to ask my mom to help me buy new ones after all it was for our survival no one likes your stupid songs shut up the first money i owned by myself was from a guy who gave me 30 dollars after i played my first song at a metro station i was so proud of myself i ran to tell my mom but she scoffed and said thirty dollars you think your performance was actually worth that he probably just felt sorry for you she picked up my guitar and smashed it on the ground breaking the neck and she grabbed the money from me and walked out she smiled maliciously on her way out and snarled good luck making it without your stupid guitar i left the house i didn't know where to go i couldn't stop crying so i just walked around the local park holding my broken guitar suddenly a man approached he gently took my guitar and sat in the grass next to me fixing it with a special kit i couldn't believe my luck i thanked the man and he said i could thank him by playing a song i started playing my only original song and i was so lost in my music i didn't notice the crowd gathering the mysterious man told me i was incredible there was a secret i want to share with you i was waiting for a real musician follow me the man took a box out and pulled out a flute he told me that long ago he had been given the power of hypnosis through that instrument alarms were blaring in my head i wanted to run away but the man promised to show me the man told me to come back tomorrow to see more and that's exactly what i did only when i arrived the next day my mom was following me apparently she had run out of money and when he and my mom saw each other they immediately started screaming my mom yelled at the man telling him to keep away from me she said he didn't deserve to see me ever again the man told my mom she was making a big mistake hurting me with her drinking you're pushing away the kid just the same way you pushed me away i couldn't believe it that mysterious man was my father my father who supposedly died before i was even born i screamed why did you tell me he was dead my mom told me my dad had never wanted me he abandoned us you have to believe me she shouted in tears have you ever felt you would never be proud of your parents like me hello my name is rachel and here are three facts about me my mom hates everything connected to my korean heritage i'm not allowed to use the internet or have a cell phone and my best and only friend left me crying at a bus stop in reality there's my mother i can't explain enough how horrible she is one day at school for international week i cook korean dumplings my mom threw everything in the garbage saying your friends will think you're trying to serve them dogs but that's not the worst i've always wanted to make movies so when parasite won the oscar for best film i was so happy and proud i wanted to see it again but my mom didn't let me you're wasting precious time in front of a screen if you only saw american movies like intelligent people my art teacher told me that i should start getting ready if i wanted to apply to film schools starting by making a film about something i loved and that evening my grandmother was over for dinner i asked her if i could film her i want to know more about your life in korea but when grandma was about to say yes my mother got closer and said i'm warning you grandma she instantly looked down and said nothing the next day my grandmother called she was sick and needed some soup when i got there though grandma wasn't sick at all cheeky old lady she had a surprise for me instead we were going to the mall we went straight to the tech store and she got me a laptop and a brand new phone it'll be our secret you can only use the computer at my house be careful and make me proud she said back at my grandmas the first thing i looked into was the korean academy of film arts in seoul i was amazed by their website but they didn't have an english program i turned to my grandmother you'll have to teach me my grandmother refused she was already risking never seeing me again just for buying me the laptop and phone then my mom called me from downstairs my grandmother was at the hospital grandma looked so small and tired her hands were cold while my mom was talking to the doctors i told her about the scholarship and will you give up that easy you have to follow your dream she reached into her pocket and put a key in my hand if anything happens to me know your future has always been safe with me she said i couldn't bear the idea of losing my grandma it was simply too much i wanted to stay with grandma but my mother insisted we should go back home i hid in my room the next morning the hospital called when we got there it was too late i was so angry with my mother i told you we shouldn't have left you didn't even let me say goodbye i hate you i'll never forgive you parents can be very selfish sometimes don't you think hi my name is callie and i could die any time i close my eyes i grew up rich and i'm not talking oh i have a nice house with a hot tub rich i'm talking old old money my family had been millionaires for generations and that didn't stop with me i grew up vacationing in aspen aruba amsterdam we had mansions in dozens of countries and i did things like etiquette school and equestrian training i got all these great things but my parents were incredibly strict with me when i graduated from my elite private school i was expected to go to an ivy league school for law my parents talked time and time again about how important it was that i went on to become a lawyer but deep down i didn't want to be one when i talked to them about maybe doing something else like being a flight attendant or an archaeologist they threatened to disown me for disgracing the family so i went to law school i wore the formal dresses i joined the boring clubs and i met the type of boy that my parents wanted me to marry bryce bryce was a blonde hair blue-eyed boy from a rich family that had had millions of dollars since the 1800s he was what was expected of me and even though i'd prefer a rebellious boy with edgy black hair and a problem with authority i loved bryce a few months into school i started feeling stressed the course load was more than i expected and the teachers were exactly what you'd expect of law professors total utter jerks i started noticing that i had problems sleeping it seemed like every 20 minutes i would sit up in bed like i had a nightmare i would be gasping for breath and shaking with my chest hurting this went on for weeks and that's when it really started affecting me i was so tired and disoriented during the day it constantly felt like i was dying and then one night i was as usual my sleeping thing happened but this time it was worse i woke up at about 3 a.m and i couldn't breathe my chest felt like there was an elephant on top of it i gasped for breath and all that came out was a horrible rattling noise bryce stood over me and tried to help me but by then my whole body felt like it was on fire everything went flat in the ambulance i could hear voices that sounded like they were underwater then all i felt was pain for quite some time everything went quiet really really quiet there were no sounds no feelings i just felt like i was floating and then all the pain was back i shot up and realized i was on a gurney in the hospital one of the doctors said she's back and i didn't understand where i went until i was in the recovery room there the doctors told me that i had been dead for 10 minutes the doctors told me that they had a feeling stress exasperated my symptoms so i needed to not be stressed in the recovery room i told bryce this and we both decided that i needed to drop out of law school but when i told my parents they lost it and said they disowned me if i dropped out they told me i should be able to handle the stress they also told me under no circumstances should i ever let any of my family members know i had this disease i was crushed they were more worried about their reputation than they were their own daughter's survival did you like this story don't forget to like comment and subscribe to dear diary as we post new stories every week

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Published: Thu Jan 28 2021