As, for your parents wanting you to be like others, I just think that is how everyone is, not satisfy with what you got because sometimes you tend to take what you have for granted and wants what you don't have. Like I use to wish my parents were someone elses. But now, I am glad they are my parents. My parents are always saying that my cousins are so much better, they are such good kids and that my brothers and I should be more like them and should go hang out with them because they are always home studying or else joining school clubs or else doing everything good people do. My dad never let us go bowling. One time we went and he found out, he was b*tching the heck out of us saying "Look at your cousins, do they do those things? Do good people do those things?" we're like, yeah, when we went there we saw them with their friends. my dad was like "Well, they are rich and can do what they want." We're like, "You're just making any excuses why we shouldn't. First it's good people don't do it, then when you found out your good people do do it your excuse is that they're rich now?" Yeah, my mom is always saying I should hang out with my cousins because they're such good girls, but all the teens know that my cousins are big clubbers and they drink hecka alot. I am 23 and have only gone clubbing a few times, I can count all of them. I have only drink a few times because I am a weak ass and I hate the taste of it. So, my parents wants me to be like them. I was like, "Don't be telling me to be like them, because if I am like them, you would cry." So, I just be who I am, I mean, they still b*tch about me being more like my cousins, but I just turn a death ear on them. Because I believe I am fine the way I am.