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Apr. 6th, 2008
Writer's Block: Family Matters
Apr. 6th, 2008 12:18 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
i would have to say i'm the scapegoat of the family. when something goes wrong with whatever...it's my fault. because i'm not like my sister or because i dont have a job or because i used too much of my mom's money to move here there and everywhere. that's been my job for nearly 30 years. i was the one who was a replacement for a child that was killed. because i wasn't a boy i had to live with my father's disappointment for most of my life. i have tried for years and years to make my family happy with me and at every corner i'm hit with "that was a dumb move" or "your fault makes me drink".
so...yeah...that's my role. scapegoat.
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) -
scape·goat Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[skeyp-goht] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.
2. Chiefly Biblical. a goat let loose in the wilderness on Yom Kippur after the high priest symbolically laid the sins of the people on its head. Lev. 16:8,10,26.
–verb (used with object) 3. to make a scapegoat of: Strike leaders tried to scapegoat foreign competitors.
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[Origin: 1520–30; scape2 + goat]
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
i would have to say i'm the scapegoat of the family. when something goes wrong with whatever...it's my fault. because i'm not like my sister or because i dont have a job or because i used too much of my mom's money to move here there and everywhere. that's been my job for nearly 30 years. i was the one who was a replacement for a child that was killed. because i wasn't a boy i had to live with my father's disappointment for most of my life. i have tried for years and years to make my family happy with me and at every corner i'm hit with "that was a dumb move" or "your fault makes me drink".
so...yeah...that's my role. scapegoat.
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) -
scape·goat Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[skeyp-goht] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.
2. Chiefly Biblical. a goat let loose in the wilderness on Yom Kippur after the high priest symbolically laid the sins of the people on its head. Lev. 16:8,10,26.
–verb (used with object) 3. to make a scapegoat of: Strike leaders tried to scapegoat foreign competitors.
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[Origin: 1520–30; scape2 + goat]
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.