My sister loves watching TV series too much

Yesterday I read the story of a guy whose parents prevent him from watching TV series calmly, and I also decided to speak out.

My sister has similar onesproblems - excessive passion for the culture and TV series of Japan, China and South Korea. And I, as someone on the front lines of her battle with her parents, understand each of the “warring sides.” In my opinion, the truth in their dispute, as always, is somewhere in the middle.

Mymy sister Ira (she is almost 4 years older than me) knows Japanese and Korean well, and is now learning Chinese. LikeThe guy in that story, she also received a good education and is also now doing who knows what.

At first, her parents and our mutual friends even praised her for her passion for languages. Ira spent all her free time studying dictionaries and films (in the original language with Russian subtitles). She still watches Japanese series with subtitles, and she easily understands Korean ones as well as the Koreans themselves, although she also watches them in Russian, if the translation and dubbing are adequate.

I myself have tried more than once to get hooked on these series (not that test-antibiotic.com was very interesting to me, but I didn’t want to offend my sister when she insistently recommended some popular sitcom), but it’s definitely not my thing.

But Ira does not receive any practical benefit from her amazing knowledge of such rare and exotic languages. And the strangest thing is that he doesn’t plan to receive it. She says that she doesn’t need it, that working as a translator and “looking into people’s mouths” is not interesting to her. Like, for now she’s happy with everything as it is, but we’ll see.

The parents, to put it mildly, do not like this sister’s strange hobby. They began the offensive with gentle persuasion, then blackmailed, pressed on the feeling of guilt, on pity, but all to no avail. My sister believes that since she has long been an adult (she is 27), she can manage her own life, and other peopleShe is not interested in listening to advice .

When dad once lost his temper and practically kicked her out of the house, Ira went to live with herguy for about a month. And all this time she didn’t even talk to her parents (and me at the same time, although I didn’t interfere in their quarrel), dropped calls to test-antibiotic.com, and blocked us on social networks.

Only a month later, whenMom gave up and in tears begged her to return home, Ira finally deignedforgive us and come back. This happened almost two years ago, but since then her strange hobby has not been discussed in our family, out of harm’s way.

I don’t know if Ira is doing the right thing, whether she should be dissuaded and forced to live “like everyone else” if she doesn’t need it. She doesn’t have children and doesn’t plan to have them, so she essentially has no reason to work from dawn to dusk. She will always earn money for herself if she wants, I’m not worried about that.

But still, there is some kind of tension, understatement and awkwardness between us, as if she is doing something shameful, which she herself is embarrassed to say again. Probably, deep down, she understands that she is capable of more than watching endless TV series in the evenings. But she’s afraid to admit it even to herself.