I know it’s long, but I would truly appreciate your prayers please and thank you so much! This was a few days ago: Um... I don’t know what's up, but my brother is distancing/isolating himself from the family... he barely says a word every day to my mom or dad... like literally... he could go a day saying only 2 words. JUST 2, not even exaggerating rn. This is today: So I just found out why my bro is feeling the way he feels… because he’s not doing anything, no job, hasn’t finished school, no driver license, so I guess he’s feeling like he has no purpose or like he’s not doing anything and he feels like he wants to do something… And I’m gonna be honest, I feel the same way too. It goes back to the fact that we weren’t taught how to move forward in life, how to become an adult and how to get out there and make a living. We weren’t given the tools to do so as teenagers/children, and moreso, me because I went through health issues as a child and my mom felt like she needed to protect me so much. Now, as an adult, I’m like “how do I do this? How do I do that?” Because I wasn’t taught how to “adult.” Now my mom, I believe, is telling him she can take him driving etc. but they push him and not me. Which is the traditional way of viewing daughter and son in a household where the daughter is supposed to pursue education, and the son is supposed to work, make an income and drive. And another thing I just found out as I was praying to God this afternoon, was that when I got a job the first time back in November of 2024 as an assistant teacher, my parents complained that it’s a floating job (like a substitute), and not in one place… so while they made it sound like that’s a fair reason to complain, I started to believe it… that it’s not stable, that they’re gonna waste a lot of money on gas, etc. I started agreeing with their sayings and eventually, it led me to quit the job voluntarily. I remember that one day, I was at the job location, but didn’t go inside and I texted a friend something like, “I quit the job because it’s a floating job and not stable,” essentially repeating the words that my parents were telling me. Now months later as I’m spending time with God, I started to realise that what they were telling me was all manipulation (possibly from the enemy) to get me to quit the job that God had given me.