Entry #23 - Something I crave a lot
Diet Coke….it’s actually ridiculous.
Entry #24 - A letter to my parents
Hmm….deja vu. I’m lazy, so I’m totally using the one I already wrote!
Dad, I’m not sure we’ll ever quite understand each other completely. I know you find it hard that I’m not your precious little girl anymore, and I don’t always make things easy on you. Mum thinks we’re too similar (which I don’t see), and there is a lot of stuff from the past ten years that I’m sure we’ll never talk about, but I as I get older I understand more about how you work. You have gone out of your way to give us everything we could ever want, and I don’t think you realise how much we appreciate it. It is comforting to know that no matter what I do, or what troubles I have, I can always call you for advice, whether it ends up helping or not. =) Mum, we didn’t see eye to eye for so long. I always thought I could never do anything to please you, but now I know that really we’re just so alike. We drive each other up the walls a lot of the time, but I love that I can come over and hang out with you “just because”. Now when people tell me I’m like you it makes me proud. You have single-handedly held our family together (not to mention the extended family!), despite being uprooted and moved across the world by Dad’s work. We will never have the “best-buddy” mother-daughter relationship, but in the past few years we have become friends. I love that my artistic side comes from you, and that you are always there to help me with my endeavours. You are both amazing people in your own ways, and for all the times I thought I hated you (or vice versa), I wouldn’t change anything about you, because having you as parents has made me the person I am. I love you both.
