Pride/ Role Models

[DontStop]

Christ, you're ignorant.

 

[Brachiisaurus]

I don't see how.

I was just stating a fact.

 

[DontStop]

Well then what was your point?
My mom is a former alcoholic
Yours isn't
I don't really care. This thread isn't about "mom comparison"
I'ts about people who motivate you.

 

[Double D]

My mom did the same thing, except she took care of 2 kids.
And she did it without being an alcoholic.

Dont be a dick.

 

[MCx2]

My mom did the same thing, except she took care of 2 kids.
And she did it without being an alcoholic.

Give it a rest dude.

 

[Brachiisaurus]

Give it a rest dude.

If it had been any other member, I woulda said the same thing.

People chill out fuck.

 

[Double D]

Its not even about her, its just the fact she is her role model and whether it is her or not, its simply not cool.

 

[Pianomahnn]

It's good that your mom has taken control of her life and her addiction. My uncle is doing the same thing right now. If she can stick with it, as it appears she is doing, then that is wonderful.

Alcohol is a horrible, horrible drug and I hate it's presence in our world. That's another thing altogether...

 

[MCx2]

If it had been any other member, I woulda said the same thing.

People chill out fuck.

Well, do it to every other member. She's heard enough.

 

[Little Wing]

I don't see how.

I was just stating a fact.

yea it's passed the point of ignorant. if i was a mod i'd ban your ass the very next time you act like a sniping little pussy to anyone. you're not funny you're acting like the little prick that always leaves the party with a nosebleed cuz he doesn't know when to shut his pie hole.

 

[BoneCrusher]

How was I bashing Don'tstop?

Once your post aren't a compiliation of a bunch of sentence fragments, then correct my grammar, but not now.

Compilation of sentence fragments? Lame attempt on your part to discredit getting caught with poor spelling as you joined the Don'tstop bashing party. (Ohhps two more sentence fragments ... three now. I hope you can understand my difficult writing style.)

Without discussion or reason you questioned her maternal respect at a time when everyone is drilling Don'tstop for sport. You offered nothing respectful, but instead questioned her natural tenancy to respect her mom.

When I look at your prior posts I see nothing that contributes to the site. What I do I see is more posts like the one you made earlier in this thread, but nothing in a substantive thread where you offer advice or encouragement ... only banter and bullshit. Then you come in here and slam Don'tstop and can't even spell correctly while you do it?

 

[Little Wing]

my mom drank while me n my brothers were growing up. our lives were a living hell. your mom is to be commended for having enough heart to be a good mom despite her illness.

 

[DontStop]

My biggest heroes are my parents.

My father, despite being a bilateral above the knee amputee, brought his family from a shit hole country (USSR) to America and went from being piss poor to middle-upper middle class. He never let the handicap hold him back, he drives a car, walks on prosthetic legs and holds a full time job. I know of completely healthy people who sit around all day collecting welfar, my father refused all that shit and we were off food stamps within our first month or so in the US.

My mother's giant heart has and will always inspire me. Didn't give too shits about my father's handicaps, and overcame religious, familial and societal pressures to be with him and raise a family together (My father is Jewish and my mother Christian Orthodox, in Russia the two didn't really mix). She worked in a sweat shop while my father got his watchmaker's training, then cut hair and did odd jobs while going to college full time and got her BS in Nursing, all the while taking care of me and my brother. She now works two jobs, cooks, cleans, does the laundry and still has a smile on her face all the time.

Last but not least, Patrick (P-funk) is a real inspiration to me. From the time i met him he struck me as a good person. The stories he told me of practicing his guitar for 12hrs a day in his room to get his degree, then moving to NYC to try and make it as a jazz musician (eating rice and tuna b/c its all he could afford), then getting back into training and dieting (carb ups were fun with him). Before i knew it he quit the job where i met him and became a personal trainer in the city. Put on like 40-50lbs in a couple of years, became a well respected trainer and moved on to bigger and better things in AZ. He's the one guy where, when he says he will do something, i have no doubt in my mind he will do it.

I hope i achieve atleast a fraction of the things the above mentioned people have achieved in their lives'.

Seeing people with a disadvantage acheiving great things always puts a smile on my face. Some people have that drive to acheive no matter what.

There is a man at an old gym I used to go to that was double amputee. He had no legs. Well You'd see this guy bench like 200lbs. He'd just hop on to the bench from the wheel chair and school everyone. It weas really cool to see that even though he was disabled, he wasn't going to let himself go.

Same goes for the kids in the Special Olympics. Seeing the smile those kids get on their faces when they've accomplished something they've worked so hard for is always a treat to see.

 

[DontStop]

my mom drank while me n my brothers were growing up. our lives were a living hell. your mom is to be commended for having enough heart to be a good mom despite her illness.

Yah when my mom was raising me she was always really sick. She tried to hide it from me because she knew that it was wrong but I always knew. I was so proud of her when she admitted her problem and got help. She's such a cheerful person now. Always full of energy. She needs the energy too. I have a little sister who is only 3!

 

[Little Wing]

my mom hasn't drank for over 20 years now. i learned a lot of what kids need by not getting it as a child, so in a way maybe it helped me but i don't think anything will ever ease her regret.

 

[DontStop]

My mom's the same. She always asks me if she's a good parent because she's scared that i had a hbad childhood because of it. We bopth learned from it. Gave us some character haha and some valuable lessons.

 

[maniclion]

My Step-mother was a heavy alcoholic, she would drink so much she'd pass out and forget to pick me and my brother up from school, after walking home a few dozen times over 8 miles it just made me more determined to get my own vehicle and a job, it also made me anxious to get out of my house and away from her.....of course she would always be able to get sober enough to have dinner on the table when my father got home, it just showed how little she cared for my brother and I. Not only did she get drunk, but sometimes she would just take off and disappear for a few days on a drug binge leaving my Father in so much distress. I blame her for his heart attack at 50 and his early death in 2003, which was job related but I am sure his mind was probably preoccupied with the shit she was doing to him at that time, which involved doing drugs with the neighbors and likely having an affair with the next door neighbors husband. The reason I think this is because 3 days after he had passed away she had moved into an apartment with this other guy....I really hate that witch....

 

[Double D]

My Step-mother was a heavy alcoholic, she would drink so much she'd pass out and forget to pick me and my brother up from school, after walking home a few dozen times over 8 miles it just made me more determined to get my own vehicle and a job, it also made me anxious to get out of my house and away from her.....of course she would always be able to get sober enough to have dinner on the table when my father got home, it just showed how little she cared for my brother and I. Not only did she get drunk, but sometimes she would just take off and disappear for a few days on a drug binge leaving my Father in so much distress. I blame her for his heart attack at 50 and his early death in 2003, which was job related but I am sure his mind was probably preoccupied with the shit she was doing to him at that time, which involved doing drugs with the neighbors and likely having an affair with the next door neighbors husband. The reason I think this is because 3 days after he had passed away she had moved into an apartment with this other guy....I really hate that witch....

Damn....forced you to grow up a bit earlier than you needed to I assume? Kudos to you.

 

[Scarface30]

congrats to your mom DontStop...I'd have to say my parents inspire me, from the way they grew up not having anything as kids and not even finishing high school, but yet my dad worked at the same job for 33 years to give us food and my mom was a stay at home mom which is highly underrated. for the sacrifices they made for me and my sister to give us what we have today, being in school and teaching us morals and honesty and how to be humble, that just means a lot to me. I know its not a remarkable story like some of the others, but thats who inspires me.

 

[Little Wing]

when someone is an ass on here i always wonder what personal pain might be behind it. it kinda shows being a dick is a choice when so many people on here are good people despite the shit they've been through.

 

[maniclion]

Damn....forced you to grow up a bit earlier than you needed to I assume? Kudos to you.

I was pretty much an independent by the age of 16, I had a steady job where i worked lots of overtime, moved up quickly and went from minimum wage to $8.50/hr in under a year....I was feeding my self and clothing myself by the last semester of highschool, if I hadn't been worried about hurting my fathers feelings I would have gotten a cheap apartment, instead I moved out the day of graduation hung out a few month's doing nothing before I was slated to leave for Navy Bootcamp......