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Excerpt
Based on a True Story
Being the third of five
kids, there should not be so many expectations on her.
But things in life aren’t
always the way we expect them to be, or what we think they should be; so, the
expectations were there. Anika knew from
childhood on that success was a must in her family. For everyone, and each child carrying the
weight of her parent’s surname, growing up inside the same house. It wasn’t an unconventional, noble or rare
surname. The surname was Smith, a common
one, but they were raised and treated, as would they be the only Smith family
in the world. They were “The Smiths”.
All the kids needed to be
successful to compensate their parents’ hard work by raising them and bringing
their name from the mass of people in the society sharing the same five letters
in their ID’s, to the surface of a new level.
From being a simple Smith
into being an acknowledged part of “The Smiths.”
Each kid’s school uniform
was ironed every evening for the following school day and the white shirt was
worth a washing powder commercial on the TV.
Lawrence, Anthony, Anika,
John and Karen were worth a Christmas card made by Hallmark or Papyrus.
But not all kids can grow
up accomplishing their parents’ wishes and expectations of them. Kids have their own dreams and expectations.
When parents try to force them in a certain direction, it can be difficult for
a child to discover what they really want to do in, and with, their lives.
Lawrence and Anthony followed
the family path and were already working with their parents. More or less happy about their lives.
John, with his strong will,
rebelled and decided to go his own way and travel to Bali with his boyfriend,
to find himself and decide what to do with his life between smoking pot and overcoming
his ‘need’ for ironed towels, becoming a defender of using the same clothes all
week, having a shower every 2 or 3 days in the name of love and compromise
(only because his boyfriend would move out if he wouldn’t do it), and
protecting the environment using no shampoos or soap.
Karen found her way being
a nurse as she failed to enter Medical school; secretly this was what she
wanted anyway and the only reason she did not enter Med school was because
instead of working to increase her grades, she did her best to decrease them,
to avoid the painful explanation of not going to the best University in the
country in case she entered another, failing all applications and trying her
parents’ second option without letting them know that it was her first one. “Oh, so sad, I am so devastated, I’m not so
intelligent like you expected me to be, but, I could do my best to be a nurse,
Dad.” Crying outside and laughing
inside, she saw her dream come true.
Karen became a nurse.
Anika? Well, Anika…
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