Why Do Parents Always Tell Us What To Do?
“Live your life to the fullest” – The theme to many songs, movies and advertisements of today. But, as kids, don’t we all wonder whether this is a hollow advice? Admitted, ‘LIVING LIFE’ means to enjoy every waking moment of it by doing what pleases us. But, are we mature enough to choose what would please us in the long run? Are we experienced enough to know that what pleases us now, would it still be that pleasing in the future? I don’t think so! So, who is it that could be instrumental in helping us lead the life and enjoying it in the way we ACTUALLY want? Yeah, you guessed it. It’s the ones who gave birth and nurtured us. Our parents.
All of us have had the pleasure of being corrected, scolded and complimented by our parents for something or the other. Yes, I say PLEASURE owing to the fact that we are fortunate enough to have parents. Some aren’t as lucky as us, but that’s a discussion for another day. Now, parents are people who have passed through the varied stages of life – the uncertain little kid who is afraid to go to school, the peer pressured teen, the anxious unemployed, the worried bachelor, the married couple and finally the couple wit kids. On the contrary, we have barely moved out of the first stage of being kids with not a care in the world to the much talked about teen stage. Parents may have hell of a lot of work to do but there’s always one thing in the whole wide world they have got time for no matter what – worrying about their kids. The reason being, contrary to our belief that they’re trying to make our life miserable, it’s that they care about us and our future too much. Where we are short sighted and think only about living our life to the fullest in a short term basis, they are visionaries and want us to life our COMPLETE life to the fullest. Ever had the feeling that whenever you’re watching TV your parents are around to look over you, that whenever you’re on the computer your parents are around to have a look-see, that whenever you’re listening to music your parents have a ear out for you, that whenever you want cash your parents invariably ask you “Why?”, that whenever you’re going out your parents surely ask “Where?”? I’m sure you’ve had it, atleast once.
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And I’m pretty sure you’ve thought that you’re being put to task for something you did wrong but can’t recall.. Or simply being tortured. It’s because, parents have crossed all these stages and know all the evils, temptations, misguidings and troubles that have to be crossed at this age. Though they also know that sometimes mistakes have to be made and then only something can be learnt from them they feel that they can somehow help their children learn WITHOUT making the mistake. As it has been said, “ An intelligent person learns from his mistakes, a wise person learns from others mistakes.” Our parents strive for us to be wise and just not intelligent. But, it is also true that every coin has two faces. What has pros also has cons. Yes, parents may have crossed our age and so are diligent for us, but they sometimes seem to forget that the world was much different at their time than it is now. The world was a lot tamer at their time than it is now and the shackle-hold they keep on us will only make us softer and not ready to face it. Sometimes, our parents even become paranoid when we make small mistakes. They also suffer from insomnia at major stages of our lifes like during our exam times. At such times we must remember that they only mean the best for us. We must try to cure them of all this by building trust in the relationship. Trust is what all relationships run on. We must show them respect and sometimes follow their advice blindly so that they have faith in us and allow a bit of leeway. Because, no matter what, parents always will tell us what to do because of how much they love and value us.
