I know what real life is…

I grew up on the streets. Johnny said that to me today when I said that real life doesnt work the way he seems to think. Please, I’m so tired of people thinking that just because their life was hard they ‘grew up on the streets’. You did not grow up on the streets when you had one or both your parents, you had a roof over your head, and always had food in your stomach even if its from food stamps.

Just because you grew up poor doesnt mean you understand being an adult and behaving as an adult.

Where did all this come from?

Johnny gave Justin a week’s notice this morning. It pisses me off because he had agreed that if he was going to move out he would give 30 days notice. I dont think he realized what this ment. Justin being noconfrontational just said what ever to him, and this evening while Justin was at school I spoke to him about it. He says he paid his last months rent (for January) and I tried explaining that even if he moves out in February that giving a months notice means taht he pays rent for the last month, I tried explaining why he had to pay first and last months rent at his new apartment.

He told me that he told Justin he would help us out but we would have to pay him back, and I explained, no you owe us the rent for the 30 days notice, that’s how 30 days notice works, regardless if you choose to move out your last month early or not.

Even if its a friend, I wont let Justin move anyone else in unless they pay first and last months rent, sign a rental agreement. If they move out with out notice they forfeit their deposit of last months rent. Period.

I’m so angry. Telling me he understands life… street life is not the same as being responsible in the adult world. Street life is all about looking out for yourself only, very typical of how most teenagers think. As human beings our teenage years are filled with selfishness, its the way we strike out on our own and grow into adults. I went through it myself, but it doesn’t make me open to allowing someone else to go through it still and it screw Justin over.

I’m honestly tired of people Justin has known for a very long time, people he considers friends, “family” walking all over him.

I’m tired of people giving excuses for their behavior, the horrible things life has handed you DID NOT MAKE YOU, YOU. How you react to the things life give you are what make you you. Deal with it, get over it and be a good person.

I know I’m not perfect, I know I have my own faults and I know damn well that some people can’t deal with it. But honestly I work to make sure that my own faults do not screw other people over. It has taken me a long time and much of growing up to realize I was selfish, but I now understand that things I could have done hurt people.

::sigh:: But I suppose I could just be over reacting and probably view myself completely wrong. It is always very hard looking from the inside and seeing an unbaised truth.