Still Growing Up

Parents! Those creatures on the face of this planet that care for you the most, at all times. Who find it their duty, as it also rightfully is, to nurture you. They teach you and preach to you. They discipline you, educate you and give to you their best at all times. You start trusting them. Almost every little thing that they say to you is an unquestionable truth. Is that really so?

How often can we actually understand out parents? Do we really know what our parents actually are? These questions seem to be the cliché of teenage dilemma. But, unfortunately, it doesn’t end there.

Can the persons that brought you up so lovingly be ever wrong? Of course they can. Even they are humans and to err is human.

Do they understand you? Of course they do: if you fall among the lucky five percent children of the world with supportive parents. For us, misfortunate ones, the answer is in the negative.

I love my parents. We all do. But for how long? We, as educated little minds of the society have been taught to believe and we solemnly do, that we have certain responsibilities towards our parents. We ought to love them. What if we didn’t? We are shining disgraces to the society. The same hypocritical Indian society that we are a part of.

The Indian society of much talked about values and virtues that are indeed a scripture of cowards. We are afraid. We don’t like change. We like to go traditional. We are egoistic. We have a closed mind. And we here, are parents!

How often do we have parents who actually stand for us when we want to do something out of the box? Very rarely, I should say! I, personally, am a person bearing this in my personal life, which ideally shouldn’t have featured in this article.

Yet that’s what is called Emotions.

We need to grow! And we need exposure if we wanted to grow. Things shouldn’t be behind the curtains anymore. I love my parents and do NOT want my relationship with them to take a blow when I wanted to do something they aren’t very open about.

Have trust on your teachings, parents! We respect you for bringing us up within the beautiful layer of your values.  We aren’t going to bring a disgrace to you!

Just because you are the parents, you DO NOT get to be right always. Like us, even you are growing up as parents. And to grow up, you need to have an open mind.