I really don't get children who talk back to their folks with much disrespect.
It doesn't matter how old you are, your age isn't a pass card to a life lived without respect, especially towards your own parents. It doesn't matter if you don't have the best set of folks in the world, they were the ones who gave you life. It doesn't matter whether or not you like them or whether or not they were able to provide you with every single thing you wanted, the fact that they're even so much as trying to provide you with whatever they can is enough proof that they love you. So before you go around starting to act all bitchy and high and mighty towards your parents just because you can already fend for yourself and don't need any financial support from them to survive, why don't you stop and think about all the things they did do for you?
Like all those sleepless night they stayed up late because you cried out for milk every so often when you were a little baby. Like all the moments they took into stride your attitude problem as a teen-- how they put up with all you adolescent bullshit because they loved you and knew you just need to grow up without their constant prodding. Like all the times they spent caring you back to health even if they were already dead tired from work. Like all the tears and sweat they poured out just to send you to school and give you a good education. Like all the times they drove you to school and you wouldn't even so much as be caught dead kissing them on the cheek in front of your friends. Like how often they'd shower you with presents on your birthday even if you don't even get to give them a lousy birthday card on theirs. Like all the times they had to put aside their own needs just so that they could give you want. Like all the times they loved you to the core, so much that they'd trade their own happiness for yours, their own bodies for your health, their own life for your protection.
Think about that for a minute before you go on telling them that you don't need them. Think about that tonight before you go to bed-- think about that whenever you trade a single few-minute phonecall with them for an all-nighter with your friends. Think about that before you going telling them to fuck off and leave you alone-- before you start reprimanding them for loving you so much they worry sick about you. Think about that before you say you hate them. Think about that before you go on telling them just how useless they are in your life. Think about that before you lose them forever.
