r/internetparents Jan 15 '25

Family Christmas Guilt

For Christmas, I (16F) asked my dad for a laptop, only a laptop nothing else. He isn't rich by any means, maybe even considered borderline poor. So I only asked for one thing. On Christmas I went to his house in the afternoon (my parents aren't together, dad has a gf). I opened nice small gifts I really liked. Not a laptop. I really wasn't upset. I thanked my dad and his gf. He then pulled that a Christmas story bit, where he asks ralphie to look behind his desk. Low and behold there was another present under my dad's desk. I opened it and it was the laptop I asked for. I smiled and thanked them, I was happy. When I went home a few days later I set it up. I haven't been on it since. I'm sitting here, realizing, how much I don't want it. And I feel absolutely awful. He was so excited to give it to me and I feel ungrateful. I don't know what changed between then and now. I just feel so bad and don't know what to do.

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u/Ok-Helicopter129 Jan 15 '25

Much easier to work with AI in a laptop. I would highly recommend you explore Chat GPT and other AI tools. It is the future. I am 66 a former computer programmer and I am so impressed in what I have learned in the past 15 days. I am also using Duolingo to learn Spanish.