Have you ever felt like just..running away?

[Cassidy]

A mother:
That does nothing but pay attention to the older sister.

A father:
Who does NOTHING but talk on his phone all day.

A sister:
Is just a flipping pig-headed jerk who think she controls the planet.

My mom doesnt do anything but pay attention to my sister. I have had sooo many dreams of becoming an actress and a singer..and too afraid they will judge me.I havent really wanted to act as much as sing. But my friend kelsi has got me hooked. My parents wouldn't give a.. *_____. Their too caught up in their stupid selves.

Im sorry if this thread is rude. BUT I DONT CARE.I just wanna..

I just want to pack up my bags, and leave this stupid town.

NOTHING ever happens here.
This is like a town, where only 18,000 people live.
And 1 out of those 18 thousand people.
Probably gets a chance, to live their dream.
AND I will not be that one.

I feel like i just got cheated out of my life.

I just want to run away, im so frustrated.

i seriosuly wanna leave this crappy place.

if my parents told me were gonna move..
i'd be al up for it.
if they didnt come along.

I swear, if you hate me on this thread, I wont give a crap.
I wont fight back.
You can tell me that its wrng to feel this way.
But these are the people making me feel unwanted.

If you wanna sing..
SHOULDN'T YOU GO OUT THERE AND SING?

I just want to leave..

 

[ohdisco]

A mother:
That does nothing but pay attention to the older sister.

A father:
Who does NOTHING but talk on his phone all day.

A sister:
Is just a flipping pig-headed jerk who think she controls the planet.

My mom doesnt do anything but pay attention to my sister. I have had sooo many dreams of becoming an actress and a singer..and too afraid they will judge me.I havent really wanted to act as much as sing. But my friend kelsi has got me hooked. My parents wouldn't give a.. *_____. Their too caught up in their stupid selves.

Im sorry if this thread is rude. BUT I DONT CARE.I just wanna..

I just want to pack up my bags, and leave this stupid town.

NOTHING ever happens here.
This is like a town, where only 18,000 people live.
And 1 out of those 18 thousand people.
Probably gets a chance, to live their dream.
AND I will not be that one.

I feel like i just got cheated out of my life.

I just want to run away, im so frustrated.

i seriosuly wanna leave this crappy place.

if my parents told me were gonna move..
i'd be al up for it.
if they didnt come along.

I swear, if you hate me on this thread, I wont give a crap.
I wont fight back.
You can tell me that its wrng to feel this way.
But these are the people making me feel unwanted.

If you wanna sing..
SHOULDN'T YOU GO OUT THERE AND SING?

I just want to leave..

Ya know, a whole bunch of crap happened to me in my life, but I am so blessed with a family that is caring and sympathetic.

Why would anyone hate you for this thread? I think, even with the greatest parents, you feel like running away. While I've never been in the situation of being in a small town (while only a couple thousand people live in my town, it's right next to San Jose, which has about a million people), I can understand feeling like you'll never be able to achieve your dreams simply because nobody you know seems to make it out.

I say, if you really are having problems, to make a plan to leave. Honestly, if you move to a city that is heavily populated, grabbing a job isn't impossible, and getting roommates is wicked easy. There are always ways to escape, you just have to be strong enough to actually do the escaping part.

 

[BearNecessities]

No one's gonna hate you for making a thread.

Your best bet is finding a college with a good music or drama program, far away from your hometown.Minimize the amount of time you spend there after high school. Although it doesn't sound that bad, just kind of boring. It's not like you're dragged down by gang life, or anything, right.

 

[weHEARTmickey]

Hi Cassidy! I am not a "teen" by any means, but my DH & I do help with our youth group at church. I was up tonight (not sleepy), so of course I got on the DISboards!

I saw your post on the main board, and I wanted to respond. I don't know your faith, or if you even believe in God, but I would like to offer advice or help. I just prayed for you, and I would like to share a verse w/ you...

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5,6

Many times, life is not fun or fair at all. Please know you have a Heavenly Father, who thinks YOU are the most awesome thing on the planet! God bless you, Angela

 

[Cassidy]

Hi Cassidy! I am not a "teen" by any means, but my DH & I do help with our youth group at church. I was up tonight (not sleepy), so of course I got on the DISboards!

I saw your post on the main board, and I wanted to respond. I don't know your faith, or if you even believe in God, but I would like to offer advice or help. I just prayed for you, and I would like to share a verse w/ you...

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5,6

Many times, life is not fun or fair at all. Please know you have a Heavenly Father, who thinks YOU are the most awesome thing on the planet! God bless you, Angela

Thank you very much for the prayer.
Me and my friend Kelsi just want to leave..
We feel there is nothing at all here to breathe in.

 

[JulielovesDisney]

I feel like that occasionally. I get so fed up with the drama between my friends, small fights with parents, bad nights at work, etc. Find a way to "cope" until you can get away.

Try and get really active at school so you aren't home as much. Write stories or journals. Make plans for the future when you can get out. And maybe (if you're old enough and depending on where you live) see if you and some friends can go someplace for a a day or weekend, like the beach. During the summer, I would drive down to the beach with some friends and spend the day there. One of my friends worked down there and has a condo there, so sometimes we'd spend the night too.

Luckily for me, I'm out of my house in a few months. I'll be at college, living on campus. But during those times when leaving wasn't soon, I made plans for my future and things to look forward to.

Another thing that I've done, is I made a list of things that I want to accomplish or experience before I die. Maybe make a list like that and try to do some of those now. It'll help pass the time until you can leave.

And one last thing: try talking to your parents. Sit them down and tell them everything you've been feeling. I'm sure they do care about you and they'll help you.

Hope it helps, and good luck!!

 

[BabyPiglet]

So leave. After high school that is. Go to a big city college with a good arts program.

There's nothing you can do now except try to appreciate all the things you do have, and not focus on the things you don't.

 

[ktbutterfly2011]

I've felt like that before.
Like nothing's going your way.
You just want to run.
Or even get lost in your own city.
I get it.
Find somewhere you love, and some people you love.
Spend as much time there as possible.
It's just like getting away.

 

[PrincessKsMom]

Cassidy:

I'm a mom of a 12 year old and I hope you don't mind we weighing in. Just wanted to let you know that I think EVERYONE feels like running away at one time or another. Everyone is just trying to find their way and where they fit in. Everyone wants to feel loved, needed and cherished. I'm sorry you're not feeling that right now, but I don't think you'll find it by running away either. You might find things are so much worse than at home. There are plenty of sick people in the world who would take advantage of you. As long as you're safe in your house, stay. I agree with some of the other posters -- throw yourself into school, so you can work towards going to a great college. If you really feel like you're being rejected at home, think of this as helping you to thicken you skin for later in your journey into music and acting. Those two industries are notorious for rejection, but stick with it! Today you might feel this way, but tomorrow (or next week) you might feel differently! Hope to see you on American Idol!

 

[Babyjustrun]

And I won't miss my flight again
I'm not where I belong.

I'm sorry that things aren't working out at home. Things aren't too great here either, but I just look at it as I only have a few more years left here, I might as well deal and make the best of things.
Don't let your family bring you down, really don't. Turn your music up, and sing louder, and ignore whatever negative things they say.

 

[crazytp93]

I am in a sort of the same situation, but my family is actually alright. My mom and dad are nice and "caring."

This year in high school I have become "more popular." I have made more friends. But I just can't seem to balance my personal life with my school life. For me its: More Friends=Grades Drop. I am really studying more now and trying to balance both but it doesn't seem to work. Have I considered running away? Yes. As a matter of fact, I took a long walk with my brother the other day because I just needed to get out of the house there was too much going on and I was stressed from school.

Cassidy, try and sit down with your parents and talk to them about how you feel. Maybe they will understand and try and help you when you feel down like this.

--Tom.

 

[shellybellypolo]

I feel like running away.
I have even thought of suicide once or twice. Not like really doing it, but thinking to myself, what use am I on this planet?
I usually think this when I lose myself in thought.
I tend to send myself literally crazy thinking about it.
But then I work over it, just like any other feeling.

You just have to look at the good in life, and list all your special skills. Anything that goes on that list is another way you can make a difference in your life, or even the world.

Feel better.

 

[jbcheerchick93]

i haven't really thought about running away

YEAH RIGHT.

i want to run away right now. but its not actually runnong away, more like running to. basically all of my family lives in Minnesota except for us. Im the girl that grew up with out her cousins and hates evey minute of it.

for at least a month i cried my self asleep every night. I couldn't help it. the worst part was when we found out that my uncle had a 10 yr old daughter that no one but my grandparents knew about. then seeing the pictures of when everyone else spent ther birthday with her...it crushed me to know that we didn't get t o be a part of yet another family event.
the good thing is that my mom would come in at night to make sure htat i was asleep and heard me crying. when i told her what was wrong she said that we could make sure that i go to see everyone this summer. we were not origionally planning on going to see anyone this summer and it would have been another year until i saw anyone. now i have plans that i'm going to visit everyone this summer and staying up there for three weeks.

my best friend has come awfuly close to running away though. now she lives in another state completly, but we e-mail all of the time. the dday that she found out that she was moving she called me and basically ran away to my house for the weekend. but before all of that she was worried that her parents were going to get a divorce and she would have to move away. i told her that whenever she needed to she was welcome at my house. she kept a bag packed and we had a lot of unplanned sleepovers.

make a plan, and if you need to, you can escape to a friends house. but go to a big city school with lots of people, that way you can find youself doing what you have always wnted to..SING!

 

[K-Shong99]

I'm so sorry.
I can't say I really know how you feel because I don't even have a sister.
But I have felt like running away.
I have cried myself to sleep more times than I can count.
I've just wanted to... disappear.
Turn up some place else and just stop worrying.
But...
I guess we don't always get that chance.
But just know that you are not alone and there are other people just like you who care.
That always helps me out when I'm alone or scared or crying.
I just know that someone out there is feeling the same way that I am at that moment and I'm really not alone at all.

 

[Cassidy]

Thank you for all your concernces.
But my parents wouldn't really care.

What i have been saying ALL NIGHT.

" Im ready to leave. Pack it up...and just leave.

I don't like it here.
In California, I probably had way more chances of catching my dream.

But here,
im still chasing it.

And thats why I want to leave.






The only thing I have always said:


" When im 18.
Im outta here. And im never coming back. "

 

[crazytp93]

Thank you for all your concernces.
But my parents wouldn't really care.

What i have been saying ALL NIGHT.

" Im ready to leave. Pack it up...and just leave.

I don't like it here.
In California, I probably had way more chances of catching my dream.

But here,
im still chasing it.

And thats why I want to leave.






The only thing I have always said:


" When im 18.
Im outta here. And im never coming back. "

Do you have a close friend, guidance counseler or teacher you could talk to? Maybe you can confide in them for help.

-Tom

 

[Ms.Squeakers]

Cassidy,
I know exactly what you're going through.
Confront them, with a plan.
DO NOT
I repeat for good measure
DO NOT
Sound like you don't know what you're doing.

Example:
I tried telling my mom and dad I had thoughts of suicide, they completely denied that it ever happened.


I figured out he only reason why they didn't listen to me, was because they thought I was going through some sort of stage.

I don't want to sound like a jerk when I say this but, you can honestly wait a little before accomplishing your dream.
I am 12, and I have wanted to run away and create a chocolate factory like "chocolat", but I wont get anywhere because I don't know WHAT to do.

Keep working on it in private, and then really amaze people when you show them what you REALLY have got.

They are your parents, they know what is best for you, and even though you deny it now, you will later see they only are trying to help.

Even with me having thoughts of suicide, my mom (who never listens to my problems) asked me what was bothering me.


You can ALWAYS get help, as amazing as this sounds, I didn't think I had many friends until I came to school one day and didn't talk and people wondered what happened to me, even people who say they "hate" you, really care about you.

Just remember that.

 

[disneydance]

I feel this way ALL THE TIME Ive ran away from home in 5th grade... Except my dream is gymnastics but I'm stuck in dance because thats my moms dream not mine. I used to be in gymnastics and going towards becoming one of the best in America when my mom made me quit gymnastics and start dance all I want to do is touch the beam again swing on the bars and do handsprings but my mom wont let me apparently she told my best friends mom again that she will do every effort to keep me out of the gym and in dance and my friends are there trying to support and they think I possibly even make the Olympics with my potential as I sit here currently injured and out of dance I never want to go back I want to go to the gym my best friend calls me the next Gymnastics Princess with a similiar story to the ice princess girl she said some day my mom will except my dreams and we I will be back in the gym but I just wonder when? where? how far I will get and I just say to my self never give up I know it may be a hard time but you will get through look on the posisitive side and go towards your dreams there may be a bump in the road but they will eventually go away and you will get there some day

 

[joepic]

Don't ever think like that. When I say that to myself, I always just remember how lucky we truly are to be alive.

I mean, think about it...
out of the millions of galaxies in the universe, and all the billions of stars and planets in a single galaxy, we were lucky enough to be born on Earth...

Don't say that about yourself... you are what you make of yourself!

 

[weHEARTmickey]

Thank you for all your concernces.
But my parents wouldn't really care...........
......The only thing I have always said:
" When im 18.
Im outta here. And im never coming back. "

Hi Cassidy! I got your pm, and just pm'd you back. I just want you to know that I am praying for you and your family.

I'm also praying for the other posters who mentioned thoughts of running away or suicide. Please know that it DOES get better!

Just stick with it...do your best in school, hang around positive, uplifting friends. If you have a Bible, please take 5 or 10 minutes a day to read some verses. If you don't have a Bible, pm me...I'll find a way to get you one! I can also tell you some really good verses that will show you that YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

Each and every one of you has a purpose on this earth. I had a pretty rough childhood/teen/college life. I can promise you, my DH & I probably wouldn't be helping with our church youth group if I hadn't lived through those traumatic times. What is going on with you right now is shaping the person you will become!

God bless each of you,
Angela

EDIT: If you are being abused in ANY way (physical, sexual, mental, etc..) that is a completely different situation! In these instances, you do need to find a way out. Seek a school guidance counselor, preacher, relative, or friend to get you the help you need. I would also do my best to find assistance for you.