Who is your helping hand and the most supportive person in your life?

[u/LazyBug8845]

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I just wanted to know because I'm really tired about my life. I'm only 16, but the lack of love hurts.

Yaar, I feel like my own family doesn't love me. Sometimes my mom does, but my dad never does. He never talks to me or asks me how I'm doing. He just expects me to be a result-producing machine. He wants me to stay at home all day, locked in my room, barely use my phone, and keep studying.

And I just can't do this anymore.

I wanted to attend a simple dandiya fest at my school.

But I'm a girl living in India, so I can't just go alone. My parents never even let me learn how to ride a two-wheeler. My dad's exact words were, "Will you learn to ride a scooty, or will you study? Where will you go, and what will you even do after learning?"

At my age, my friends are already independent enough to go places and make their own decisions.

But I was never even given the chance to learn. And now, I've lost the desire to go there at all.

There's no one else in my family I can turn to, so I have to keep begging them, folding my hands in front of them, just to get a little freedom.

They never make any efforts for me.

They never have, and I don't think they ever will.

I just want to live.