Personal Narrative: A Career As A Racist

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Oh jeez, I can already predict what we are going to talk about. Sigh. It can only be out of a few main choices. It probably is about becoming a doctor in the future, it is his favourite topic. Every. Single. Time. Every single time he wants to drive me to school, “So you will be a doctor in the future right?” Ugh. It makes me feel sick sometimes. I’d imagine it be boring and stressful, just like school, and who the hell wants their entire life to be like school? Teachers must be insane. I know doctors make a crap ton of money, and it must be a good job to have, but there are just so many better things that I could choose. I just wish I had a bit more freedom. And that I wouldn’t have to listen to his constant yammering.
Why can’t it just
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This is my life now. Yo ho, yo ho it’s a doctor’s life for me. I’m hilarious. Maybe I should become a comedian or something. It would certainly be better than a doctor. Or maybe I could become a model, they probably make tons of money. Really though, so many things are better than a doctor. I could become a writer, a lawyer, an engineer, a researcher, anything really. I would have so many options! If I had to choose right now though, it would definitely be an astronaut. It would be calm, peaceful, and away from everything and everyone. Weightless and free ahh, that would be the life. No one to disturb you, and you experience something that only a few are able to. I’d imagine you get paid a lot too, although the payment would just be a bonus compared to the freedom. Maybe one day it could be a thing, they can’t stop me when I get that old. For now though, I guess I’ll just have to listen to my stingy old parents. What do they know anyways? Why do they have to be so strict and bossy all the time?
At least I wish that they would let me go out sometimes. Just to go see a movie with friends, or at least just to a friend’s house to do work. I guess they are sort of suspicious of me dating. I don’t think they know about Lily though. I guess my sister might have told them something, but she wouldn’t do that. I should talk to her more often though, she does go through the same struggles as – wait
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And become a doctor and all that, because doctors have stable jobs and make lots of money. I understand.
Maybe they think that what they are doing is the best for me. Maybe it is the best for me. I suppose they have some idea what they’re doing. For all I know, it could be worse. There are children out there who don’t have a nice home and food to eat. There must also be kids with absolutely nothing at all. I should certainly be grateful for what I have I suppose.
I wonder what would happen if they ever found out the truth, all the things I’m hiding from them. Maybe they already know, maybe they just want to make sure that I don’t get tooo far off track. Or perhaps they would explode with anger and kick me out of the house, dooming me to be one of the unsupported and poor with nothing. Or maybe their hearts would explode from the sadness and grief caused by me lying to them.
Hopefully I don’t give them a heart attack or stroke. I guess the longer I keep secrets, the worse it will be when they come out. But maybe they will never come out. And I don’t want them to kick me out or die do I? Ignorance is bliss, and I have kept secrets for so long, it can’t hurt if I keep them for a little

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