45. Ask and answer the one important question which you wish we had asked. (Carleton College)
How important are parents?
They say that as children grow older and start maturing, they start putting more importance to their peers and friends than to their own parents. I don’t believe that such a thing is true in my life, but I do believe that it’s true to many. Take my sister for example; she’s completely different than I am. She seems to value and give importance to friends more than her own parents, whereas I feel like I do the opposite. Yes, it’s undeniable that I’ve not listened to my parents on many occasions, I’ve disobeyed them and sometimes even did things purposefully just because they told me not to do it. But that’s just the thing. That’s just the part about growing up. You become a rebel for a while, but even in those times, I have never given more importance to my friends than my parents.
They say that as children grow older and start maturing, they start putting more importance to their peers and friends than to their own parents. I don’t believe that such a thing is true in my life, but I do believe that it’s true to many. Take my sister for example; she’s completely different than I am. She seems to value and give importance to friends more than her own parents, whereas I feel like I do the opposite. Yes, it’s undeniable that I’ve not listened to my parents on many occasions, I’ve disobeyed them and sometimes even did things purposefully just because they told me not to do it. But that’s just the thing. That’s just the part about growing up. You become a rebel for a while, but even in those times, I have never given more importance to my friends than my parents.
When my parents come home from work, I always get really excited. Call me a kid, but I don’t get to see them in school and I don’t get to see them at home during the day because they are at work. When my parents come home I always run upstairs ready to ask them how their day was and start talking about the most random things. My sister on the other hand, she walks up the stairs slowly, sits and stairs at us for sometime and then goes on facebook on her phone and starts chatting with her friends. My parents keep thinking that she’s playing games on her phone, but actually she’s not listening to anything anyone is saying except her friends. But I don’t blame her either, that’s just the way she is when she’s growing up. She’s giving more importance to those that can relate to her more, but I don’t think that she’s really forgotten to value her parents.
Many people, even within my own friend circle forget to value their parents from time to time. I do that as well being a child whose trying to experience life without someone telling her his or her experiences. But even then, I know how important my parents are. I know how much they spend to send us to school. But they never complain once, they always support us no matter what we do (right or wrong), they teach us to be the best people we can be, they come and wake us up in the morning just for us to tell them to go away, they fulfill our every demand, they yell when we’re wrong, they hug us when we do the right thing, and most of all they were the ones who brought us into this earth. Without them, we’re nothing.
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