Every branch of my family tree feels like a different universe

[Jason Voorhees]

I was thinking about my extended family recently and it honestly feels like every uncle and aunt is living a completely different life in a completely different movie genres It’s weird how people who grew up in the same little town in kerala ,same houses, same childhood conditions can take such drastically different paths.

My dad’s side

One of my uncles used to be a hardcore alcoholic. I remember being a kid seeing him getting into hearing arguments with my grandparents and my dad for money to buy him more booze but at some point he just stopped and got sober and he’s somehow kept that sobriety for 16 years straight. I've talked about this in a thread before. I inherited some of his alcoholic tendencies too but mine are much much milder than his anyway now he’s a quiet, peaceful family guy working a decent job as government employee and has a school age kid

Another uncle is the definition of the American dream. Came to Chicago in the 90s with just a CS degree and barely any experience but became A senior staff engineer and tech lead and with the .com bubble turned around into a 8 figure net worth probably the most financially and professionally successful person we have but his personal life is rough.No children barely talks to anyone, and his marriage is collapsing. Every time he visits India he seems thinner more tired. It’s like he won one race but lost another

The third uncle retired early and honestly lived the calmest life out of everyone an passed away peacefully in his sleep three years ago after a stroke. Somehow his life feels complete when I think about it. He left behind a cozy house, solid dividend income for his family. And a daughter who’s studying medicine now.

And then there’s my dad’s sister my aunt who just disappeared from the family due to some old land dispute drama. No one knows where she lives she doesn’t show up for weddings or festivals. The last time I saw her besides my uncles funeral is when I was a little kid. Every family has that one mysterious relative you only hear about in fragments.

My grandparents all live a calm retire life in the same town. Have comfortable savings, no serious medical conditions besides my grandad's hypertension problem but they are doing just fine.


My mom’s side

Two aunts who are fully traditional family life done right. Both married, both with kids in school and uni. One just celebrated her 25th wedding anniversary and has been a house wife for many years and the other runs a small boutique business and seems genuinely happy. Their lives aren’t flashy but there’s a warmth to them.

And then there’s my uncle who moved to the UK in the 90s. His son my cousin he is my age but took a completely different path. Born and raised there but turned into a complete degenerate. Dropped out of college turned into a roadman got into smuggling even ended up in prison. He had potential he was a bright child growing up, got really good grades in GCSE but idk what happened to him after that. Things just went downhill after the 6th form

And both my grandparents from my mom's side are no more. One died from a kidney transplant years ago and other due to old age.

Sometimes I sit and think about how random everything feels. One uncle is filthy rich but lonely, another is comfortably middle class but fulfilled, one cleaned up his demons, one never came back, one died peacefully, one cousin is studying to be a doctor, another is doing God knows what

It makes me wonder which “branch” I’ll end up representing someday.

What is your family like?

 

[Eärendil]

 

[Jason Voorhees]

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Answer seriously brah

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@TechnoBoss @optimisticzoomer @browncurrycel

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@Chadeep @LTNUser

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@Lightskin Ethnic @aladdinmaxxer @slaters @Lefty Rankin

 

[autistic_tendencies]

Sometimes I sit and think about how random everything feels. One uncle is filthy rich but lonely, another is

no such thing as randomness all simply by law of cause and effect

 

[Chadeep]

You can't have everything in life tbh.

 

[Lightskin Ethnic]

@Lightskin Ethnic @aladdinmaxxer @slaters @Lefty Rankin

You'll end up with a White girl but a Bihari kid

Ngl its still an upgrade

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@MiserableMan @Mogs Me @FaceandBBC

 

[slaters]

Moms side cowboy country niggas

Dads side idk working and drinking

 

[LTNUser]

It's good to hear that your family is all healthy
Must have been following healthy practices to remain fit for that long

 

[Daddy's Home]

Read everything, very nice read tbh

My family, on both my mother's and father's side, is almost identical. All grew up in rural areas, with subsistence farming as their main occupation, very poor, with nothing to inherit, and all forced to start from scratch, practically..

Aunts have gone all over the country to find a guy with at least an average income to support their lack of education/job, while alcoholic uncles have remained in their native village and most of them do nothing with their lives, just waiting to die

I am like the top 15% of grandchildren from this entire family tree who actually made it to a big city, graduated from university and got a master's degree, and work for a large company..

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@BigBallsLarry @Gengar @imontheloose

 

[ihatereddit]

isnt kerala pretty developed? probably mogs my shithole tbh

 

[Lefty Rankin]

I was thinking about my extended family recently and it honestly feels like every uncle and aunt is living a completely different life in a completely different movie genres It’s weird how people who grew up in the same little town in kerala ,same houses, same childhood conditions can take such drastically different paths.

My dad’s side

One of my uncles used to be a hardcore alcoholic. I remember being a kid seeing him getting into hearing arguments with my grandparents and my dad for money to buy him more booze but at some point he just stopped and got sober and he’s somehow kept that sobriety for 16 years straight. I've talked about this in a thread before. I inherited some of his alcoholic tendencies too but mine are much much milder than his anyway now he’s a quiet, peaceful family guy working a decent job as government employee and has a school age kid

Another uncle is the definition of the American dream. Came to Chicago in the 90s with just a CS degree and barely any experience but became A senior staff engineer and tech lead and with the .com bubble turned around into a 8 figure net worth probably the most financially and professionally successful person we have but his personal life is rough.No children barely talks to anyone, and his marriage is collapsing. Every time he visits India he seems thinner more tired. It’s like he won one race but lost another

The third uncle retired early and honestly lived the calmest life out of everyone an passed away peacefully in his sleep three years ago after a stroke. Somehow his life feels complete when I think about it. He left behind a cozy house, solid dividend income for his family. And a daughter who’s studying medicine now.

And then there’s my dad’s sister my aunt who just disappeared from the family due to some old land dispute drama. No one knows where she lives she doesn’t show up for weddings or festivals. The last time I saw her besides my uncles funeral is when I was a little kid. Every family has that one mysterious relative you only hear about in fragments.

My grandparents all live a calm retire life in the same town. Have comfortable savings, no serious medical conditions besides my grandad's hypertension problem but they are doing just fine.


My mom’s side

Two aunts who are fully traditional family life done right. Both married, both with kids in school and uni. One just celebrated her 25th wedding anniversary and has been a house wife for many years and the other runs a small boutique business and seems genuinely happy. Their lives aren’t flashy but there’s a warmth to them.

And then there’s my uncle who moved to the UK in the 90s. His son my cousin he is my age but took a completely different path. Born and raised there but turned into a complete degenerate. Dropped out of college got into smuggling even ended up in prison. He had potential he was a bright child growing up, got really good grades in GCSE but idk what happened to him after that. Things just went downhill after the 6th form

And both my grandparents from my mom's side are no more. One died from a kidney transplant years ago and other due to old age.

Sometimes I sit and think about how random everything feels. One uncle is filthy rich but lonely, another is comfortably middle class but fulfilled, one cleaned up his demons, one never came back, one died peacefully, one cousin is studying to be a doctor, another is doing God knows what

It makes me wonder which “branch” I’ll end up representing someday.

What is your family like?

I'm kind of like that too. Father's people are feral Appalachians from Eastern Tennessee. He was born a bastard to a 16 year old mother. My mother's people are hoity French Canadians with a mix of Irish and Scandinavian. Great grandma on that side also descended from British peerage.

And yes I'm very proud of it.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

I'm kind of like that too. Father's people are feral Appalachians from Eastern Tennessee. He was born a bastard to a 16 year old mother. My mother's people are hoity French Canadians with a mix of Irish and Scandinavian. Great grandma on that side also descended from British peerage.

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And yes I'm very proud of it.

So that would technically make you like part WASP right?

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@BigBallsLarry

 

[Lefty Rankin]

So that would technically make you like part WASP right?

I would say I'm pretty much pure WASP. Neither of my parents have a lick of Spanish, Portuguese, Corsican, or Italian in them. They both did a DNA test. My father's people are very wild but not dysgenic in any way. Comely folk that just happen to live without rules. No interbreeding surprisingly enough because the region they're from is rife with it.

Actually I just looked it up and no, I wouldn't be pure WASP. My father's father was Swiss German. I didn't know Germans, or French for that matter, aren't considered WASP. My father's mother is mostly Scotch Irish though and my mother is like 60% Irish, so that would make me more than half WASP. Mother's maternal grandfather was mostly a Frenchman though, and a francophone, so that's why I say they're French Canadians. Her maternal grandmother was a Northcote and pure WASP.

Actually, not trying to toot my own horn here but her paternal grandfather was supposed to have been one of President Harding's bastards. Conceived and sent away to Canada before he assumed the presidency. So I might be descended from arguably the most corrupt and terrible president in American history.

 

[BigBallsLarry]

What is your family like?

They're all the same tbh, all grew up and still live in the same town - apart from my uncle who now lives in germany and makes a killing there

 

[areayes]

I was thinking about my extended family recently and it honestly feels like every uncle and aunt is living a completely different life in a completely different movie genres It’s weird how people who grew up in the same little town in kerala ,same houses, same childhood conditions can take such drastically different paths.

My dad’s side

One of my uncles used to be a hardcore alcoholic. I remember being a kid seeing him getting into hearing arguments with my grandparents and my dad for money to buy him more booze but at some point he just stopped and got sober and he’s somehow kept that sobriety for 16 years straight. I've talked about this in a thread before. I inherited some of his alcoholic tendencies too but mine are much much milder than his anyway now he’s a quiet, peaceful family guy working a decent job as government employee and has a school age kid

Another uncle is the definition of the American dream. Came to Chicago in the 90s with just a CS degree and barely any experience but became A senior staff engineer and tech lead and with the .com bubble turned around into a 8 figure net worth probably the most financially and professionally successful person we have but his personal life is rough.No children barely talks to anyone, and his marriage is collapsing. Every time he visits India he seems thinner more tired. It’s like he won one race but lost another

The third uncle retired early and honestly lived the calmest life out of everyone an passed away peacefully in his sleep three years ago after a stroke. Somehow his life feels complete when I think about it. He left behind a cozy house, solid dividend income for his family. And a daughter who’s studying medicine now.

And then there’s my dad’s sister my aunt who just disappeared from the family due to some old land dispute drama. No one knows where she lives she doesn’t show up for weddings or festivals. The last time I saw her besides my uncles funeral is when I was a little kid. Every family has that one mysterious relative you only hear about in fragments.

My grandparents all live a calm retire life in the same town. Have comfortable savings, no serious medical conditions besides my grandad's hypertension problem but they are doing just fine.


My mom’s side

Two aunts who are fully traditional family life done right. Both married, both with kids in school and uni. One just celebrated her 25th wedding anniversary and has been a house wife for many years and the other runs a small boutique business and seems genuinely happy. Their lives aren’t flashy but there’s a warmth to them.

And then there’s my uncle who moved to the UK in the 90s. His son my cousin he is my age but took a completely different path. Born and raised there but turned into a complete degenerate. Dropped out of college turned into a roadman got into smuggling even ended up in prison. He had potential he was a bright child growing up, got really good grades in GCSE but idk what happened to him after that. Things just went downhill after the 6th form

And both my grandparents from my mom's side are no more. One died from a kidney transplant years ago and other due to old age.

Sometimes I sit and think about how random everything feels. One uncle is filthy rich but lonely, another is comfortably middle class but fulfilled, one cleaned up his demons, one never came back, one died peacefully, one cousin is studying to be a doctor, another is doing God knows what

It makes me wonder which “branch” I’ll end up representing someday.

What is your family like?

Dnr

 

[Jason Voorhees]

I would say I'm pretty much pure WASP. Neither of my parents have a lick of Spanish, Portuguese, Corsican, or Italian in them. They both did a DNA test. My father's people are very wild but not dysgenic in any way. Comely folk that just happen to live without rules. No interbreeding surprisingly enough because the region they're from is rife with it.

Actually I just looked it up and no, I wouldn't be pure WASP. My father's father was Swiss German. I didn't know Germans, or French for that matter, aren't considered WASP. My father's mother is mostly Scotch Irish though and my mother is like 60% Irish, so that would make me more than half WASP. Mother's maternal grandfather was mostly a Frenchman though, and a francophone, so that's why I say they're French Canadians. Her maternal grandmother was a Northcote and pure WASP.

Actually, not trying to toot my own horn here but her paternal grandfather was supposed to have been one of President Harding's bastards. Conceived and sent away to Canada before he assumed the presidency. So I might be descended from arguably the most corrupt and terrible president in American history.

Interesting breakdown, man. Honestly you don't even read to me like a proper WASP. Like don't have that old money Hamptons, trust fund tennis playing arrogant upper class energy. You come off way more like some half feral Southern dude who grew up in a holler with a jug of moonshine in one hand and a family Bible in the other.

 

[Lefty Rankin]

Interesting breakdown, man. Honestly you don't even read to me like a proper WASP. Like don't have that old money Hamptons, trust fund tennis playing arrogant upper class energy. You come off way more like some half feral Southern dude who grew up in a holler with a jug of moonshine in one hand and a family Bible in the other.

Lol, I've been estranged from my family for my entire adult life thanks to my mother. And yes, I try to be down to earth. I admire the spirit of the American South and have spent much time there from the time I was a kid into adulthood. I was born in Virginia and spent my first 10 years there.

The reason I come off that way is because I actively go out of my way to shun modern Western society. I try to be uncouth to keep people at bay. Also, practicality is something I value most in life. That being said, I do put on airs sometimes. Moving and speaking with a markedly graceful distinction. I can't help it.

 

[Lefty Rankin]

Interesting breakdown, man. Honestly you don't even read to me like a proper WASP. Like don't have that old money Hamptons, trust fund tennis playing arrogant upper class energy. You come off way more like some half feral Southern dude who grew up in a holler with a jug of moonshine in one hand and a family Bible in the other.

Funny how things work out. My father's mother is a multimillionaire. She's got much more money than my mothers ilk. Wasn't that way when I made her a grandma at 40 years old though. See, her husband died unexpectedly and had a sizeable life insurance policy. She was destrought and haphazardly threw all of her money into the stock market a couple years later. The year was 98 and she put most of it into Pfizer. That was the year a little pill called "Viagra" hit the market, and the rest was history. Since then she's found she's got a knack for playing the sock market, as well as pure luck. She's good at selling properties on her own as well. Always buying up land at auctions and selling it for up to 3 times what she bought it for years down the road. Woman only made it to the 2nd grade and didn't have electricity in her home until she was 12 years old.

My father slept on the couch for six months back in the early 2000's because he wasn't able to convince her to let him be power of attorney over her will.

I hate money to tell you the truth. It's only a tool. I've never counted on getting any from inheritance. I'll probably be wealthy though one day because of my mindset, but you'll never see me living like a rich man. If I must drive, I'd rather not, I'll always drive humble vehicles. And I'll always live way below my means.

 

[FaceandBBC]

Most of my family are ghetto hood rat niggers. Only me and my dad act normal.