by RomanEmpire » Fri Feb 14, 2014 2:25 am
Been feeling pretty down lately. I'm not even sure why, I think it's just a bunch of little things building up. I hardly ever get to talk or see my girlfriend, we don't have any classes together, so we hardly see each other during school. Outside of school we text but during the weekdays we both have a lot of homework, and on the weekends we sometimes have stuff to do so we don't get to talk much then. Also neither of us can drive, so we need to depend on our parents if we ever want to hang out, and my dad isn't home much because he has two jobs, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.
I talk to my friends a lot more than I used to, but for some reason I still feel lonely sometimes. We usually Skype and play League or something, and we hang out on weekends more than pretty much ever before because they have licenses and can drive places to go hang out. But sometimes we'll be in a Skype call and I'll just be sitting there with nothing to contribute to the conversation. I feel really bored with everything, but at the same time there's so much that I want to do but can't, hopefully that will change soon. I want to go running or exercise in some way, but it's been too cold, but now that it's warming up I should be able to do it and that might help clear my mind a bit.
I have a younger brother who is 9 years old, and very overweight, I worry about this the most. I used to be overweight, but not as overweight as him, and I eventually lost weight. I feel like when he gets to middle school he's going to get bullied, and I'm just so so worried about him. I want to help him but I don't know how, I want him to lose weight, I want to get closer to him, I feel very distant from him. I hate how my family functions sometimes. I hate that me, my sister, and my brother just sit in our rooms all day, and I really really want to get closer to my siblings, especially him, but I just don't know what to do. I keep telling myself to interact with him more, to play video games with him at least once a week because that's what he loves doing. But at the same time I want to do something to encourage him to lose weight but I don't know how to do it. My whole family has a history of being overweight. My parents are overweight, and as a family we have horrible eating habits. My parents know it's unhealthy, and they do try to change our diets, they really do, but we still struggle as a family. I just feel so helpless and I want to protect him so much. I have a younger sister that is only 3 years old and I fear the same thing happening to her, I don't want her to get overweight and struggle with losing weight like me and my other sister did, like my brother is going to have to do.
Sorry for rambling on, I just have a lot on my mind and really needed to vent.