The Letter

Andrew,1

I couldn't afford getting you a present but I thought that i'd give you a letter as part of my New Year's resolution. One of my resolutions is to get whatever  I have to say off of my chest. Listen  i'm not writing this letter to be on your bad side and no one influenced me to write this letter because I am old enough to have a mind of my own.  But let me get down to the point. You see it hurts me and angers me when you come into my home and tell me what I can and can not do in this house.  I could see if you helped out around here with the bills but you don't. You promised me that you would stay out of my business and tend to your own kids but you lied to me.  That was your way of getting back into our house the last time. But the next time I will not take part in the decision so don't ask me or i'll just be another strike against you.  Last time you lasted for a few weeks then you were back to being yourself again.  Then another thing that I don't like is you always be asking my mother for money when you know she is struggling already. You have a job you live with your mother and mine so you don't have any mortgage or bills to be paid so therefore you should always have money.  You only got a car note and insurance to pay but yet you still complain.  I just wish that you could trade places with my mother  for a month and see what it's like making the bottom dollar an hour with a car note to be paid, light bill, phone bill, water bill, gas bill, child care fees( not even including school fees), food, clothes, etc., and having to do it all making in one whole month what you make in a few weeks or less. Then you're still not satisfied you take away the child support saying you want money to buy the kids things can't even do that. They can't even ask you for a measly $5 to go on a field trip.  Then you come crying to my mother about some insurance like she got money for that especially like around this time round the holidays. Knowing that any gift that they receive comes from her because you don't even try to buy them anything besides a shoe. When I think of you I think of my father and I feel the same way for you as I feel for him. You never come around for the holidays, you never buy my mother nothing for Christmas or Mother's day but yet she goes all the way out for you before she would for me. That's why I commend her cause I could never be like her I would never take as much as she does from anybody she is a truly strong woman.  You can't get your life straight but yet you expect me to listen to you when you tell me things. You waltz around here like a big man or something but it only makes me think less of you because you could walk around so proud knowing that you are not taking care of  your  kids. You'd rather sit around and tell us how you do for other people's kids and your friends like that's something to brag about when they're living large already and we're over here struggling. Then when I say and do things around here that you don't like you use that to your advantage and say the reason why you don't come around is that I'm to no manners. But I know that's not true. You shouldn't let me come between you and your two kids i'm almost grown and i'll be out of this house before you know it.   So don't use me nor my name. You don't have to like being around me and we don't have to speak because my father's name is Norman Smalls and I can't stand what type of man he is either  but you do have to maintain some type of relationship with your kids. You figure that you can come around and leave and come back any time you want but if you keep it up my mom will get tired of it eventually right when I  help to open her eyes so that she may see the light. If this is what you tend to do she deserves a lot better she's been struggling all her life trying to make things right for other people never being able to do for herself.  So if you want to leave then leave don't show these kids no life like this because they'll think it's All right for people to do that to them. I'm sure you wouldn't want a man to do your daughters like you do my mother so think about that. I don't care if you show this letter to anybody else including my mother but everything in this letter came from the heart so take it to yours. If I offend you I apologize but this is what I call keeping it real! So get it together!2

Sincerely,3

Lady Rage P.S.  Oh and Merry Christmas, Happy Birthday, and Happy New Year's to you.4