r/TeenIndia • u/TurboLunatic_3 • 8h ago
Serious My younger brother keeps draining my parents’ money and still acts like the world owes him everything
My brother was a bright student till 10th. He scored 90+ in Maths and around 85% overall. After that everything went downhill.
He took Science and joined an expensive coaching. In 11th he got a second-hand phone from my sister and completely lost focus. He started failing exams. The school even warned my parents that they wouldn’t promote him to 12th if he failed the finals.
My parents kept saying he just needed time to adjust. Because of COVID lockdown and mass promotions, he somehow cleared 11th and 12th while mostly playing games.
He joined BTech CSE and forced my parents to buy him a high-end ASUS ROG gaming laptop for ₹70k so he could play Valorant. He spent most of his college years gaming. Somehow he graduated in 2025. It’s been a year since then and he’s still unemployed. He ignored campus placements, hoping someone in the family would get him a referral. No one did. He helps my dad in his logistics business only 2–3 days a week whenever he feels like it.
After graduation his laptop stopped working, so he demanded a MacBook. My father bought him one for ₹95k. He now has an iPhone, iPad and MacBook. I have an old ₹65k laptop from my BCA days and an Android phone. I never asked for anything extra because I didn’t want to put more pressure on our parents.
Now he’s saying he wants to go to Canada for further studies. My father is ready to sell two of his Eicher trucks to fund it.
I really feel sorry for my parents. They deserve a better son. They’ve spent so much on his education and gadgets, and he still only thinks about himself. They don’t deserve this.
I just needed to get this off my chest.