Alright, so here is my first real post. I have a brother who is getting married in September. Now, normally this isn't that big of deal. Do the wedding thing, get some free cake, head home and remember the wonderful day I married Selina. When I was married, I had no real job. I had just returned from Iraq. I was just let go from an intern ship. I was trying my hand at a business (that later failed). My life was unstable to say the least. I was 26 years old and I was going to school for my undergraduate. I had a plan to graduate and do accounting work. Anything more detailed from that was...well in flux. But I had direction, and I had a desire. I wanted a better life for me and my soon to be wife. To quote Tevia "[We] were so in love, [we] didn't know how miserable [we were]!"
Then there is my brother, Sterling. He is 30-years old...29 I guess. He still lives in my mothers basement (and if you've seen his area you'd hardly call it living). He plays video games, makes movies, and is unemployed. He owes a lot of student loans without a semester to show for it. He's stopped paying credit cards and now has constant creditors calling and sending him nasty grams. He lost his job from Dominoes pizza and Fed-ex (loading trucks). NOW HE'S GETTING MARRIED. To top it off, he threw a fit when my mother told him he can't live in the basement with his wife. WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIM? So forgive me if I told him, after he told me that he has no plan, no goals, and no drive to do anything except try and become the next major movie maker, that I told him I wasn't going to the wedding because I don't want to support something that just should not happen. He has not spoken with me since (to quote Johnny Depp "Consider that a bonus!"). So, although I hold no animosity with him (truly, I don't), I think he's totally nuts. But to top it off, I wonder what the heck his fiancee is thinking. She's 20-ish, talented musician, going to school. I have to think she's smart...maybe? I know she plays video games with Sterling online (that one where you fight with groups and spend money upgrading things, only to realize that you have nothing in real life to show for it). She also likes being in the movies he makes. I don't know if she's really stupid or just desperate. I don't want to be paying taxes to support these two.
More importantly, I don't want them to bring any children into that life...more like an anti-life.
Then there is my brother, Sterling. He is 30-years old...29 I guess. He still lives in my mothers basement (and if you've seen his area you'd hardly call it living). He plays video games, makes movies, and is unemployed. He owes a lot of student loans without a semester to show for it. He's stopped paying credit cards and now has constant creditors calling and sending him nasty grams. He lost his job from Dominoes pizza and Fed-ex (loading trucks). NOW HE'S GETTING MARRIED. To top it off, he threw a fit when my mother told him he can't live in the basement with his wife. WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIM? So forgive me if I told him, after he told me that he has no plan, no goals, and no drive to do anything except try and become the next major movie maker, that I told him I wasn't going to the wedding because I don't want to support something that just should not happen. He has not spoken with me since (to quote Johnny Depp "Consider that a bonus!"). So, although I hold no animosity with him (truly, I don't), I think he's totally nuts. But to top it off, I wonder what the heck his fiancee is thinking. She's 20-ish, talented musician, going to school. I have to think she's smart...maybe? I know she plays video games with Sterling online (that one where you fight with groups and spend money upgrading things, only to realize that you have nothing in real life to show for it). She also likes being in the movies he makes. I don't know if she's really stupid or just desperate. I don't want to be paying taxes to support these two.
More importantly, I don't want them to bring any children into that life...more like an anti-life.
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