What If I'm Not Good Enough?
Tonight the hubs and I watched a film called "The Land of Steady Habits." Netflix and chill kinda night.
SPOILERS BELOW
This film is about a recently divorced finance guy who has also recently retired and basically can't get out of his own way.
He's a fifty-something handsome guy who bangs a lot of women he meets in random stores but can't seem to get it up once he gets them in bed.
Anyway, that's not really why I'm talking about this.
Really, what struck me were the two sons that were featured in the movie. One was his son and one was he and his ex-wife's best friends' son. Both were complete knob-heads. Screw ups with drug habits who were well into their late twenties and incapable of keeping jobs.
The sets of parents wrestled with the issue of what went wrong. What had they done wrong that their kids had turned out so messed up? One of the sons actually ended up dying from an overdose.
I don't even have a child yet, but I'm already dealing with the looming questions of "What if I'm not good enough? What if I do something that really scars my child for life?"
And of course I will! It's a silly thing to worry about. But I still do it.
In one of the scenes, the boy who dies of an overdose asks the recent divorcee why parents worry so much. He just says "What's with that?" And I believe it's such an honest question.
Why the heck do we worry so much? I've not even had a baby yet and I'm worrying about nothing. I'm having heated disputes with my hubby about imaginary situations that haven't even taken place!
Being a parent is going to be the most difficult thing I have ever done.
xo Jenea
- Everything is always okay in the end; and if it's not okay, then it's not the end.
SPOILERS BELOW
This film is about a recently divorced finance guy who has also recently retired and basically can't get out of his own way.
He's a fifty-something handsome guy who bangs a lot of women he meets in random stores but can't seem to get it up once he gets them in bed.
Anyway, that's not really why I'm talking about this.
Really, what struck me were the two sons that were featured in the movie. One was his son and one was he and his ex-wife's best friends' son. Both were complete knob-heads. Screw ups with drug habits who were well into their late twenties and incapable of keeping jobs.
The sets of parents wrestled with the issue of what went wrong. What had they done wrong that their kids had turned out so messed up? One of the sons actually ended up dying from an overdose.
I don't even have a child yet, but I'm already dealing with the looming questions of "What if I'm not good enough? What if I do something that really scars my child for life?"
And of course I will! It's a silly thing to worry about. But I still do it.
In one of the scenes, the boy who dies of an overdose asks the recent divorcee why parents worry so much. He just says "What's with that?" And I believe it's such an honest question.
Why the heck do we worry so much? I've not even had a baby yet and I'm worrying about nothing. I'm having heated disputes with my hubby about imaginary situations that haven't even taken place!
Being a parent is going to be the most difficult thing I have ever done.
xo Jenea
- Everything is always okay in the end; and if it's not okay, then it's not the end.
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