Dear Parents,
I am a 23 year old, writing
on behalf of your children. Things which were supposed to be said a few years ago
but I couldn’t gather the courage to say. It may seem I am abrasive but here is
what you need to understand.
The very first thing you need
to do is to start listening to what your children say and not that society
says. Society is not going to deal with the problems which they will have in
future. You always taught us that we
should respect our elders but never told whether they are worth it or not. If
they are that older then how come they do not think before saying something which could be felt offensive to someone? They should know how to talk to others that
too regardless of the age if they demand respect.
At an age, when we get our
voting rights, we do not have your consent to go for outings with our friends,
what do you want, you want us to live all our life watching photos of our
friends enjoying their lives? Yet we are silent. We see other people of our age going
out, hanging out with friends, still we didn’t compare you with others’ parents
because we know that, THAT DAMN
THING HURTS.
At what price would you listen
to what our opinions are and actually take them into consideration? What are
your expectations? Always fulfill your expectations and dreams by choking our
own until the death summons? Speaking of education, have you
ever asked us what course we have to opt for? Hardly! Even if you ask, there
are incidents when you declined straight away.
We do care for you and that’s why we think it is important to ask you
before doing anything. Taking your opinion into account is what we believe in. Can
we not have even a single shred of trust?
We see youngsters nowadays – talking impudently, getting
dragged into obscene environments by their ill-tempered wits, getting involved
in nasty businesses like drugs. When we see them, the very first thing that comes in our mind is their parents, what would they think of this plight of their children or do they even
know this. Whenever we see any person of your age eating alone, working in
night shifts, working as a blue collar laborer, our heart sinks. At an age
when you will be enjoying your rest of the life after retirement, they have to
work like that but do you know what gives us relief? It's you again!❤
You were capable of giving the life we have right now and we
promise you to give a life which you deserve. You will never have to struggle after your retirement because your children will be there to repay you for all they have been blessed with. We are proud to call you our
parents and we are grateful to you for all that we have been given. It doesn’t matter even if we earn in millions but one thing for sure- It will never be as significant as a
thousand earned by you.
I would like to tell this to all the parents out there that this
is what your child thinks of you so I request you to stop pleasing the society
for the sake of your child because every time, you do
that in spite of knowing that it may regress your child’s faith in you. And if
it does, you better not ask us - WHY?
Thank you for reading.
Tejaswini Yadav
gryffinpuf11@gmail.com
