My prerogative? Bullshit!

Does taking a subject “Critical Reading and Thinking” necessarily make you a critical thinker at the end of the subject? Does not taking that subject make you less a critical thinker? Does it mean that if you do not take that subject, you’re not a critical thinker? What is the point of taking that subject? To think of one subject in different perspective or just think of that subject differently from your other peers? If you are a critical thinker, does that make you more matured than the rest of your peers? If you’re not a critical thinker, does that make you less matured and more childish?

The one thing that parents should never EVER do is ALWAYS think that they know what is BEST for their children. Note the capital letters in the words where I place emphasis on them for being the important words in the statement. So, we are now young adults. Does being a young adult means we cannot rebel and that rebellion is only reserved for the teenagers? Do people always tend to over-generalise things? Do people always think that if one person is a responsible person as a young adult, does that mean that ALL young adults are responsible? If so, what about the young criminals we so often read and hear on the news? Do you think they have acted responsibly since they are young adults? Are young adults no longer allowed to make the mistakes of teenagers?

So what my room is so much messier than the rest of the house? Does it mean that I do it to spite my mom or it is an act of abuse of the freedom she gives? Parents always think that we as children should NEVER EVER question their opinions or statements. In other words, follow them blindly. Whatever they ask or say, do not question them, just do it. If that is the case, doesn’t that make us docile and in other words, we do not have a thinking of our own? Doesn’t that make us spoon-fed, the very thing they always say we should avoid? “Be more independent,” they say but their actions speak otherwise. They can protect us from one thing but they cannot do that forever. They always wish their children would grow up and learn but how do we do that if they are preventing us from taking a fall? Do we not learn from our mistakes? Do we not learn how to stand up again after taking a fall?

Do parents always think that just because we are their children, we inherit their way of thinking and habits 100%? Do they think we’re actually reproductive clones of them? Are they really unaware that we grow up by being moulded by the society and environment we live in? Do they actually think that they way things work in the 1950s will be exactly the same in the year we live now? Have they really stopped growing with time and we as children have exceeded that period they wish things were, like in the 1950s? How many times have we heard teenagers (oh, I’m sorry. I meant, *insert sarcastic tone* YOUNG ADULTS) complaining about how unreasonable their parents are? How many times have we complained how outdated our parents are? Come to think of it, at times I do agree that parents are just a pain in the ass. Please excuse the language.

I wonder, do parents want us to think and live the way they do (maybe with some minor changes here and there) so that they can see us living the way they always wanted to live but couldn’t due to some unforeseen circumstances? Are they moulding us into themselves? In Asian culture, children are not allowed to talk back to their parents, to voice out their opinions and bluntly object their parents’ opinions. It is seen as an act of rebellion. To put things simply, if we object them, we are rebelling. I think that is a load, a BIG load of BULLSHIT. Even though we think we are wrong and we are being berated for our so-called mistakes, we have to swallow our pride and opinions. What does that make us? Robots?

Frankly, sometimes I am so sick of all these and yet, what can I do? Sure, I can move out and live on my own without depending on them financially but as of now, that is not an option. Does not depending on them financially make us free from them? Is it because we are financially dependent on them that we have to follow their rules? So we do not really have total freedom is we are not financially free from them? Parents should WAKE UP and SEE that their children have their own personality and thinking and NOT try to mould or influence their children to be more like themselves (referring to parents) and get in the way of their children’s growing mentality.

Motto of the day: Parents should not force their thoughts on their children and claim that that’s their prerogative.