Do you feel that you have made your parents proud?

manic111 said:
Even if they are proud of me, I don't feel proud of me, which is probably even worse. Still, I'm only 24 and so far have been successful, so things are moving in the right direction!
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Same here. My parents are proud of me, but I know I can do a better. Like you though, I'm moving in the right direction.
 
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Moses99p said:
Haha, my uncle got his law degree from Oxford, and now has a nice firm doing cool work. I'll never be as successful! :eek::cool:
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Success is entirely relative.

Is a lawyer, however rich, really as successful as the Aid worker in Africa, or the Doctor in the A&E, or the Soldier in Afghanistan.

Just be all you can be, and never compare yourself to another. That way you will be successful.:)
 
I'm tortured by this, my mum passed recently and I don't know whether I did. I hope I did but I'll never be sure, so many un-answered questions and regrets.
 
Yes, but most of all I want to be proud of myself. I have put them through a hard time being in the military but they are proud :)

Oh and for those who said NO. Remember you can always make them proud now, its never too late :) Jake, your mother would have been proud.
 
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Castiel said:
Success is entirely relative.

Is a lawyer, however rich, really as successful as the Aid worker in Africa, or the Doctor in the A&E, or the Soldier in Afghanistan.

Just be all you can be, and never compare yourself to another. That way you will be successful.:)
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You my friend speak wise words.
 
In some terms definately not, I ****ed about drank myself stupid, took drugs as a teen/young adult and caused them allsorts of grief.

Now I'm a teetotaller, family man with 3 kids (one of which I practically brought up by myself) run my own business which isn't amazing but it supports the family and we get by. I would like to think that if I dropped dead tommorow, they would see the positive things I've done/tried to achieve.
 
Castiel said:
Success is entirely relative.

Is a lawyer, however rich, really as successful as the Aid worker in Africa, or the Doctor in the A&E, or the Soldier in Afghanistan.

Just be all you can be, and never compare yourself to another. That way you will be successful.:)
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That's absolutely true, and they are wise words. But when the question is "Do you feel that you have made your parents proud", you need to answer the question in those terms. I believe that, having a hugely successful dad (in financial and hierarchical terms etc), who himself had a hugely successful dad etc etc, he would also want me to be successful in a similar way. As yet, I am not. Therefore the answer to the question is "no, not yet".
 
Yes and no.

Yes - I have graduated from university, one of the first to do so.

no - Right now my parents are struggling financially and I am in no position to help them due to being unemployed.
 
manic111 said:
That's absolutely true, and they are wise words. But when the question is "Do you feel that you have made your parents proud", you need to answer the question in those terms. I believe that, having a hugely successful dad (in financial and hierarchical terms etc), who himself had a hugely successful dad etc etc, he would also want me to be successful in a similar way. As yet, I am not. Therefore the answer to the question is "no, not yet".
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Think back to when you were very young and said your first word, when you rode your first bike, when you graduated from school or college etc. Can you honestly say your dad never felt pride in those instances? It's perhaps a different kind of pride than seeing you as a successful lawyer, leading surgeon or the CEO of a large corporation, but it's pride nonetheless.
 
I hope so, though I believe them when they say that they would be proud of me regardless of what I achieved.

Certainly I hope I haven't done anything specifically to disappoint them, at least not yet...

For what it's worth, I am most certainly proud of my Mum, she's probably the most patient, nicest person I know and I owe a huge part of who I am to her. Sappy, probably but hey ho :)
 
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