A second chance to live?

A Queen.

What a Queen_____________________________

We've all suffered from parents who try to get too involved in our lives. They aim to control everything about us: from the friends we choose to the major we chose to study; from our fashion sense to our career options. Some of us get our way but a lot of us don't. A lot of us will have controlling parents even once we've formed our own families.

Let us call it 'Parents Butting-in Syndrome'. What causes it? Obviously one reason. They want us to fulfill their own dreams. They want to see their hopes achieved through us. And yes it is not fair. And yes, it's very hard to break away from all that. And yes, many of us never manage to escape this ordeal.

Another smaller cause is that these parents suffer from the (I know it all, I know best) mentality. How many times have we had to endure: "I'm your mother/father, I know more, and you will do as I say as long as you're living under my roof". What is the answer to this little problem? Remaining calm in the vain hope that we could try to convince them of our opinions later (and this never works)? Moving out as a means of escaping?

I don't know. All I know is that I shall keep this post as a reminder for myself as to what I do not want to become as a parent. I just hope it works. And again, I hope the future will be kinder than the past.

Till we meet again,
Sedeso