(im 16 btw) OK, this is wayyy in advance, but it never hurt to start planning early. So ever since 2006 i have wanted to go to the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Tennesee, and because of my ever growing love of Jam bands i also want to go to the All Good Festival about 20 days later in West Virginia. They are both arond 3-4 days long camping and music events. I also am interested in trying LSD but thats a different story. Anyways, i cannot go this year due to circumstances in place but i plan on going in 2009. I have around 5 friends who want to go with me and their parents are cool with it. Mine however are not. They know about this event and told me i could not go to anything of the sort. So i naturally am already saving up money to help chip in with supplies, gas, food, weed, shrooms and if were lucky acid. So i was wondering if running away from home in the early part of June and returning in mid july would be reasonable. My family does have a family reunion cruise to alaska that we are schedualed to go on during that time frame, however i am willing to forgo that, but i dont want my parents to flip out and cancel it. what should i do
try your hardest to convince your parents to let you go. if not, don't go, at least you gave it a shot.
Listen, I know it would be fun. You should try to convince your parents to let you go. However, it would not be reasonable. You're parents would be crushed with concern about you. You would be breaking your parents heart. I really recommend you rethinking it. I know you're feeling grown up now and they don't entirely respect that. But remember, they love you, are concerned about you, and you shouldn't put them through with that even if they're not cool. If it was me, I'd actually go to a cruise in Alaska and try to get some time away while I was there, because honestly, Alaska is crazy beautiful. And you can always go next year. But you can give it a shot anyway. Tell your parents you think you're ready for this. You love them and your family, you want to spend more time with that, but it's important for your development to get some independance and spend time with your friends also. Ask them to consider it and give you an answer in a week. Try that option. Don't run away from home. I ran away form home sorta at 16... but my circumstances were completely different,
Steal thier car, credit cards and loose cash. Write a note about how they made you sit in thier lap and shit and tell them you will tell the cops if they report you. Yeah thats the way you do that one!
I ran away one saturday morning when I was seven years old while my momma was making opancakes in the kitchen. I packed one suitcase of shoes and took my glass jar full of change. I realized this would probably not be enough for a plane ticket to Florida, so I devised my grand scheme of going door to door asking for specifically 'money for the poor' in those words. I knowledgeably avoided the block parent houses. Anyways, kindly old grandparents took me in, got me to call my mom, ( I was two streets away at that point) and my mom showed up, full of tears. I felt pretty bad. Dont run away.
She could leave a note saying she was kidnapped and demand ransom. She gets to go on the trip and vacation money. Who hah. Got those parents in check.
Well, I am willing to guess that your parents are at least fairly intelligent beings. And, if this is the case, it will be easy for them to figure out where you might have gone. And that will be the end of that, most likely. Do you think your parents will just say "oh well" and let you be? They'll find you.
Believe me, they will do whatever they can to get you back and, most likely, they will. And if you do manage to run away (unlikely), when you come back you will not be leaving your house until you move out.
Maybe you should attend your family reunion and wait until 2010 when you're 18 to go. You're already waiting a year, what's one more? Bonnaroo comes around every year, but your relatives won't be around forever.
You also need to consider it from your parents side. Most likely, their lives will be put on hold until you come back. And that's not fair. Like Kinky Ramona said, just wait another year.
my god, the dillemas you kids face today. all it takes is some music festival that comes back annualy to make you want to run away from home. fuck phyisical, emotional and sexual abuse.. run away from home because your parents said no to a fucking music festival.. real mature.. sheesh..
learn an instrument, join a band, play at the festival. thats what im doing and if they say no....play the "i cant let the rest of the band down" card, bit low but it should work. also they should appriciate the fact that you would be doing something productive rather than just boshin loads of acid
I'm sure that convincing your parents to let you go there is the best thing to do. What if they look for you and catch you before you even reach your destination?
