Re: I'm going to go mad if I don't do something.
Hi there,
a physical exercise is non-sense, if you don't want to do it. Just take a look on animals, did you ever see a dog or a cat making a jogging to be fit?
Well, until they're either trained or forced, they won't do so. It's a waste of energy, if one don't mean it seriously.
I'm not saying that one can't get a good feeling from a recreational run, but that assumes to be okay with the activity in first place.
If I was in your position, I would firstly deal with the brother. Firstly through dialog and negotiations, he is on the same hierarchy level in the family than you are, if you believe in such things, so he has no right to command you in any way.
If he won't listen, then I would go a level further. The thing here is, that if I followed his orders, that would just assure him that what he's doing is right. So instead, I'd need to make him regret, that he wanted what he wanted.
Concrete steps depends heavily on what is your brother's personality. I would either try to make him as mad as possible during the exercise, or drag him as much as possible, so it stops being funny for him.
The result anyway should be, that he won't want to do the things with you anymore, because he will find you annoying, boring, dragging, or whatever else during the exercise, what lowers his mood.
Then, the next step would be to deal with the family. They must understand, that you're different persons, who like and want different things. Again, it would start with negotiating, my goal would be probably to split the time to two equal parts - one for me and the other for the family.
During the family time, I would try to search activities, which all of people like and would want to do. Though I warn you, that it probably won't be easy. One good activity for example are books. If you have sighted parents, who like to read books, go and get some, either from your own library, so you can read together what you wanted yourself, or find a genre, that all of you will enjoy and stick with it.
And during your time... headphones are very useful thing. They cover up your activities, so you can read or watch whatever you want, and on the other side block noise of other people, so you can get rid of their rambling.
Of course all of this is actually much easier said than done, and you'll probably have to face many obstacles, before acquiring your goal.
So, just never give up, you're human as well.
I wish you good luck.
Best regards
Rastislav
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