Like…

Idk why my mom got upset at me for making songs with lines like “This cruel world” or “The darkness of the skies”

I just want some catharisis¹ okay, what’s wrong with that?

(¹Am I even using this word correctly?)

I think my parents are just boring and doesn’t appreciate art lol…

  • She had developed some maladaptive behaviors to deal with this, in part because mental health wasn’t a thing back when she grew up.

    It sounds like your mom had her own maladaptive traits.

    Growing up in the 1960s/70s China that was wrecked by Imperial Japan just a few decades before they were born and with food-insecurity tends to do that… 😞