Is it normal that i use my grandmother as motivation to keep going?

I was raised mostly by my grandmother. I can remember when i was about 12 and my granny was cooking our breakfast and we were talking about the world wars. I remember what she said vividly: that the Germans had taken her father, two uncles, two brothers, and two sons from her. The one time I ever saw her begin to cry was when she was telling me about finding out about her sons being killed in France.

She quickly sterned up, though, and told me "but they didn't back down from those filthy germans." And went back to cooking.

Although she died in 1997, I still use her toughness as motivation. When I'm lying in the snow working on a truck, I realise that I have nothing to complain about. My predecessors were doing the same thing, but had to be worried about being shot st or bombed. Ive got it easy.

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  • McBean

    Thanks for the story. I salute your Grandmother. Respect runs deep; people like her know what it means to stand for something.

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  • Whatintarnation

    Its cool to have someone like that to look up too. Hell of a life some people have had.

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  • You could be my real grand daddy. The problem isn't the story, the problem is that you're generalizing all women.

    Like two women said something stupid over breakfast, and that's when you "learned" a fact about all women? Please, you must be able to do better than that.

    When referring to the human condition, the only correct generalization to make using the word all, is that all generalizations, particularly those referring to personality or mental traits, are inevitably flawed.

    There will always be an exception. Basically, your point is that all women will always stick together and blame men, yes? I'm already an exception to that statement; I won't stick with anyone if I believe that they're wrong, regardless of gender.

    People, men and women, can be wrong many times.

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    • How did my innocent post of a good memory turn into a male/female sex bashing argument? Both of you need to shut the fuck up. I've seen just as many bad mothers and bad father's in my life. I've had one of each. Thank the gods for my grandmother. Every sex, race, and nationality have their stereoypes, and those stereotypes are there for a reason. Because they're true. Accept them and get the fuck over them.

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  • Pumpurrnickel

    Having a certain person serve as a motivation is one of the most normal things I've seen on this site.

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  • Ellenna

    Being a mother IS a job, just an unpaid and often unappreciated one. Women don't always "blame a man for everything", you are generalising about all women from your own experience and that's lazy and immature.

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    • rayb12

      Not all women do this. But some do and you are definitely one of them Ellena. And no being a mother is obviously not a job lmao

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  • No, you do not "observe the human condition for what it is". You're just observing people from behind the blur of your bias.

    A bias likely created by being around a small group of women. Get off of your high horse, you dumb old fuck.

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  • Nickvey

    grandmothers can be cool. i remember being almost three and my grandmother was cooking breakfast . she asked how i liked eggs and i didnt know , she asked if i liked biscuits and i didnt know , she asked if i liked honey and i didnt know? then she told my mother " i told you not to marry that son of a bitch" but the fact really was my mother was too lazy to make breakfast. thats when i learned women will always stick together and belittle a man and always blame a man for everything, no matter what. actually she was my great grandmother now that i think about it. i never met my mother's mother. she died of TB. my dad only missed two months of his life without a job untill he retired, My mother never had a job in her lifetime.

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  • Dustyair

    Holy Christ, this turned into a goddamn mess fast.

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    • No shit. Human nature at its finest. Read my earlier post. Thx.

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  • Ellenna

    So that would be why I've supported both men and women who are victim of family violence from partners? And have myself experienced violence from male and female partners.

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  • Poopusher5000

    Live n let die

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  • Lol

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