My Parents Are Literally Gonna Freak Out, Like Really Freak Out, When I’ll Tell Them What I’d Done

“You’re kidding, right?” is exactly how they’re going to respond

“Mom, Dad I’ve something to tell you. And guess what? You couldn’t have imagined this — not even in your wildest dreams. But first promise me you’ll not freak out okay.”

For weeks now, yeah for weeks — I have been imagining this exact conversation. You know when I will finally drop that huge bomb on them. I wonder how are they going to react to it. Whether they would freak out badly, which I think they would, or would they think that their oldest daughter has grown two heads and has gone completely insane.

I even sleep myself to dreams every night while thinking about it — imagining best and worst-case scenarios.

Well, the best-case scenario is they would probably believe me about what I will tell them and accept it happily.

And on the other hand, the worst-case scenario is that they would freak out very badly, start throwing thousands of questions at me:

“Are you serious?”

“But wait! how and when? How is that even possible? I still can’t believe you. You’re kidding right?”

or they would think that I’m just messing with them.

“That’s nice one kiddo but listen we don’t have time for this now okay.”

I have known my parents for the past 20 years of my life and I know they would probably think that I’m just messing around with them because I do that a lot. A lot. And by “a lot” here I mean that I am one of those children that don’t leave a chance to prank my family, mess with my sister, give them thrilling surprises, or insanely irritate my mother. I know I am hard to be around. But hey I can be very sweet when I want to be.

So, I know they aren’t going to believe me that easily. How will they when I’d always behave like that? They would probably think that I am pulling another prank on them.

But little they would know that this time I ain’t joking. I ain’t joking okay.

Oh man, that’s going to take a hell of an effort from my side to finally convince them. You can understand this right? But wait! how are you going to understand if you’ve no idea of what I’m talking about so here’s that “going to freak out” news:

I EARNED $2000.

Yeah, $2000. Freaking $2000… in just one and a half months.

“Ohh, so it’s about money!” — but hey don't judge me when you don’t know crap about me.

If you’re wondering how I earned it, so I earned it from here. Here on Medium. It all started a couple of months back when I was in the midst of figuring my passion, one day I came across YouTube recommendations of Shelby Church’s video “Making Money Online Writing for Medium… Is It Worth Your Time?”. And being a seeker of passion, I clicked on that video.

And oh man, I glad I did.

Inspired by her video, I started writing on Medium. When I first started writing here out I had no idea how I was going to earn my first $1000 but I was determined that I was going to make it no matter how many weeks, months, and years of hard work and patience it’ll take it. I was full of determination and hope. So full.

And then after writing for months, one of my articles went viral. It got 50k+ views in a week. 60k+ views in 15 days and reached up to 72k+ views in one month on ILLUMINATION. I couldn’t believe that I finally did it. I mean I was like “Wow, how did this even happened?”

That article alone made $1858 in one month, and after combining my earnings from other articles, the total was $2000. Freaking $2000. I still can’t believe it. This all just seems like a dream, a really big dream.

I know you must be like, “You earned $2000, so what? That’s not kind of big deal. I earned $5000.”

But dude here everything isn’t about the amount of money, it’s about the self-satisfaction, happiness, and pride that I feel after earning my own damn money. I am very proud of myself. Very proud.

In case you’re wondering, well, this is my first income. Yeah, my entire life’s first income. You know the feeling you get when you earn on your own is beyond words, it’s beyond explanation. Especially, when you are a 20-year old. Yeah, I’m 20. And I don’t know what kind of person doesn’t get excited about their first salary especially when it’s by writing from home while sipping a cup of coffee.

But if you aren’t that type of person, then you need to chill dude. Enjoy every little moment of your life because these little moments are what counts for your entire life. Stop sucking around and live a little. I repeat Live-A-Little.

And if you still didn’t get why I’m sure that my parents are going to badly freak out it’s because:

• First of all, they have no clue. Not even a single freaking clue that I have been writing on Medium. It’s something that I have been secretly doing for the past months.
• They have no idea that people can earn that much money writing online.
• I am 20. And that’s a lot to digest that I started earning at an early age, before even graduating college. (I know that’s not too early to earn but listen my parents have no clue that people can earn that much money without doing an actual 9–5 job)
• $2000. That’s a hell of a lot of money.
• No one, I mean literally no one in my family earned that much monthly. Even my father couldn’t make that much if he combines his 2 months salary altogether.

I can’t wait to share it with my family. I literally can’t wait. Every second of wait feels like someone put a 1000kilos weight on me. I just want to feel light, I want to feel happy. Of course, I am happy. I am freaking earning why wouldn’t I be happy.

But you know what? I still feel something is missing and I know what exactly is that. It’s my family's reaction. They would literally get a mini-heart attack then there. Just kidding!

But you know nothing could ever beat the feeling of seeing the smiles on the face of my beautiful family when I’ll tell them. That will be the moment when I’ll be the happiest person in the entire world. I am so so longing for that moment.