5 minute freewrite 2887 prompt do not despise
This is my post for #freewriters 2887 prompt do not despise hosted by @mariannewest
It is hard not to despise when you are told, my children do not do things like your children do, they are not that way. Well, good for you. Not everyone is lucky like that. Their children were raised no differently than mine.
Your children are not perfect, no one is. I do not despise the one who said he would do a job for me for 500 dollars, and then tell someone else he will give them 100 dollars to help him, and when the job was finished, he charged me 600.
I know someone else who thinks their children are perfect. I am told they do no wrong, but money came up missing in their home, and you blamed someone who did not live there and who had not been inside your home. Before the money was missing, the locks were changed, and every window and door was locked, you could not find any place that was broken into. I suggested it was an inside job, and was told "her children are not like mine". I do despise that statement.
I raised my kids to have good values, and I had them in sports to keep them active and teach good sportsmanship. They were in no way spoiled and saw me work for everything they got. Not all of my children are "wayward", but because two of the five are, does this make me a failure as a mother, and give you the right to look down your nose at me, and them?
I have given it a lot of thought, and I do not know what I should or could have done differently, other than not working as much as I had to work. Even with that, I am not sure it would have made a difference.
photo is mine
Everybody's children are not perfect. We are all sinners, and we all choose our path. That person who said that is envious of you, and resented you calling her out on truth. Her looking down her nose means she is not perfect either. Keep your head up; God will sort it out!
Everybody's children are not perfect. Amen to that, but some people think theirs are perfect.
And thank you.
I don't think it is your failure! I am sure you raised all of them equally! But, unfortunately, they chose a different path, whatever the reasons! It's painful as a mother but you shouldn't blame yourself. and, other shouldn't blame you as well.
!ALIVE
Thank you for the kind words.
It is hard to accept the path they chose. I keep thinking about what I could have done to prevent them from taking that path. I know I did the best I knew and do not know what I would have done differently.