Romeo Shares His Experience With First Generation Guilt
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🗓️ 30 May 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:33.0 | It's a real thing. First generation guilt. It's, uh, if I have it right, Romeo has explained |
| 0:39.4 | it as like when your parents aren't from this country, but they struggle to get in this |
| 0:43.8 | country and you know all about that struggle that there's like an inherent guilt if you |
| 0:50.7 | are not achieving the goals that you want in order to make your parents proud because |
| 0:56.0 | they work so hard to get you into the country. Do I have that right? |
| 0:58.1 | Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And then once even when you reach those goals, there's this overwhelming |
| 1:03.4 | guilt that you have. And I was just talking about this with my cousin. Uh, and it was cool |
| 1:08.4 | because I don't ever, I don't think I ever have conversations like close with my family |
| 1:13.2 | like that where we talk about like our struggles in a way or like what's going on mentally |
| 1:18.3 | and things like that. And it's funny because I had this conversation in the car. I don't |
| 1:22.3 | know what it is about me having like serious conversations in the car, but I was writing |
| 1:26.0 | with my cousin and he was so happy he was excited because he recently just got a new job |
| 1:32.4 | as a project manager for this construction company. And this is a guy who, uh, with his |
| 1:38.2 | dad, they've created as well like a, a wood floor company, right? And so they've been pretty |
| 1:43.3 | successful and things like that. And now this project managing position came up and he |
| 1:47.2 | was going to be making like way more than his dad like has ever made. And so he was like, |
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