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I don't understand what people do. I'm in Los Angeles, the second largest city in the USA and the 12th largest city in the world. Yet still, I'm at a loss for things to do with my family. Please take your time to add to this list.

  • Shopping at Galleria, 3rd Street Promenade, Topanga Mall or other nice places
  • Bowling?
  • Six Flags or other amusement parks
  • Movies
  • Out to eat
  • The Beach
Now let me also add that maybe we don't do activities because of our hesitance to spend money.


I just had a long conversation with my parents after I tried to impromptu take everyone to watch Despicable Me 2 because my sister wanted to go and my Dad watched 1 yesterday so he would understand 2. The conversation consisted of me telling everyone that for the past 16 years we don't do anything as a family. Every weekend it's the same thing, my parents watch TV again and again, and I just sit there on the computer. So we planned to go to a Hindi movie today, but I said it's not about that. It's about what happens after that. After this, yeah, I'll go to India, but when I come back it's the same thing all over again. Every weekend I'll go to the gym, my Mom stays home and works, my Dad is at work, and when I get back I'm just on the computer or out with someone while my mom cleans (which she apparently loves to do). When my Dad does get back, they just watch TV pretty much all of Saturday night and Sunday. But I realize that this is because they don't love each other. They have no feelings for each other. They don't care about each other and thus don't want to spend time with each other. This lack of feelings just results in this dull environment and really, my inexperience with proper relationships. So seriously, I hate arranged marriages. As unprofessional as this is, FUCK arranged marriages. I'm telling you first hand that if your parents had an arranged marriage, there is probably something wrong with your life somewhere. Thank you for your time and please add to this list.

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  1. UnknownJuly 7, 2013 at 4:32 PM

    It seems like you have a case of a typical Indian Family. Dad always at work, Mom always doing house work/chores and you as the child are bored with the same daily routines. I too experience the same things as you. Also my parents had an arrange marriage. As far as the topic of "going places" just force them.
    Tell them that their shows can always be watched later, and that is this the only memory they want you to remember them by? Always watching tv?! Maybe that should change some things? If they bring the topic up about money spending tell them what else is money good for? Like i get it, your about to go into college and they need to save money but at the same time they need to realize what Family Time is all about. Try also digging up information about how their childhood experiences were with their families(things that help your cases obviously) and point them out.

    And the thing you said about arranged marriage is %99.9 true. My parents don't seem love each other either. Heck i can barely get a picture of them together. One day i talked about this with my dad, he said,"In those days we had no choice on who to marry, it was all up to our parents. Me and your Mom met for the first time on our Engagement. And the motto back then was First marriage then love.". He also said that," The way couples managed to stay together was do to having children, and in some cases that's how we find love." So long story short our parents found love through us, that's why if we are happy, they are happy. I hope this helped.

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