I've tried hanging out with my parents and watching TV twice today. I've watched a bit of golf with them while drinking my afternoon tea which I haven't have in a long time. I was very bored watching the golf game. I felt obligated to be in that TV room just to show that I'm a part of the family, even though I'm not really taking after the British or the French in my family tree.
The second time, I was having my Mio flavoured water. I was watching the end of the golf tournament. I sat in my mum's red chair with the vintage metal legs. I was thinking that I didn't deserve to sit in that chair after all that I've put my mum through this year - in her mind at least. I've hesitated for a few seconds, than I sat down anyways. I wanted to run off into my room and fiddle with my little red Schultz car. I sat out in the TV room with my parents.
I feel exhausted.
I can't listen to songs about England anymore because my heart's no longer in that country. I feel a sense of guilt while listening to 'They'll Always Be an England' and 'The White Cliffs of Dover' and sometimes I start to cry because I feel a sense of guilt. I'm better off listening to the German stuff from WWII. I don't feel that same sense of guilt.
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The Family Schlager