Parents seem to think you can't have "REAL" friends on the web.
So this seems to come up, especially from my mother, all the time. I'll usually be in the middle of a conversation with someone over the web and I'll be summoned out of my room. And while I am trying to get back into my room my mother will usually respond with, "I think this is a little more important that talking."
"But it is really important!"
"I think I have invested more in your life that your so called 'friends', would they really be there for you when you need them?"
"They are true friends."
"And how would you know that?"
To which I can't reply why because many things about me she doesn't know. Like how I failed a suicide attempt and came to the forums for help and some of my best friends from skype. Also the other time where I said I was going to go kill myself while I was home alone. People from the forum rushed to my aid without question and just wanted to help me.
I can't tell her why people on the internet can mean so much to me; that I've shared so many beautiful moments with many people, and half of them I can't ever tell her. That means I still sit here while I am told that people on the internet aren't "real friends" and I have no way to defend myself against such a preposterous concept.
I am fully aware it is healthier to have friends that you can meet up with physically. But it still goes to show, that you can still have just as good a relation with people at any distance with media nowadays. And for now, I wait, under the oppression of old ways of the past generations that don't understand new concepts.
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