SO true! SO true in our family's household. So I rebelled. But never too much! :)

Now I'm old enough, w/ enough years of therapy behind me - and a TON of spiritual studying - to make my Choice to rebel the old parental/cultural dictates and regain my young soul. Seek my joy, as you put it, and the hell with rules or whether whoever approves. "what will people think?" - a monkey I carried on my back for way too long