Parent: An organism that produces or generates offspring.
Presented before you is the definition (found on Dictionary.com) of the word "parent". For most of us, a parent is a father and a mother. Yet, in other cases a parent is only one father or mother, sometimes those parents are step-parents, or adoptive parents. Sometimes a parent could be your own sibling.
The word parent does no longer connotate to the biological production of it's nature in our modern society. Although there will never be a break between the tie of those who gave birth to you and to yourself, the emotional bond that we form between people is everlasting.
I myself am grateful to have two loving and happily married parents. Yet, this doesn't take away the value or emotional tie that another child could have with their parent, whom of which doesn't have the same situation as mine.
A parent is a provider, a protector, and without a doubt loves you unconditionally. Upon analyzing the essays, "Arm Wrestling with my Father" and "Shooting Dad", I realize that a parent does not define their child but a mutual understanding is formed between those that care for you your entire life.
Despite traditional standards or even modernized perspectives of what a parent should or should not do matters not when regarding the unexplainable connection between parent and child.
Though in many cases teenagers will roar in states of rebellion against their parents as "oppressors" and power-hungry dictators, a parent understands you in ways no one else will.
There is something...ominous about the way that a parent guides you through life using only their biased experiences. It's scary for them more than you'd think. Parenting doesn't come with a guide book or a "How-to" video. In many cases, parents want to continue to do better. Seek other ways to train you and optimize your future careers. And yes, parents are usually wrong in what they do. But their decisions aren't made out of spite (usually), and often times it's a game of mystery. Other times, parents truly do know what's best for you.
A parent is a person who relates to you in a way that isn't direct or even measured, but the simple understandings that are unspoken, and the bonds of trust that cannot be broken shape the relationship between parent and child.
I agree that parents have a very hard job parenting because there is not manual or rule book on what to do and what not to do but I have to disagree with the idea that parents are usually wrong in their decisions because they have lived much longer than we have and oftentimes have been in the same situations we have with only slight generational differneces
ReplyDeleteI think that often when it comes to life being wrong is a matter of how you look at it. It may not end well for you, but does it teach you a lesson? Or it may end well, but you learn nothing from the experience. You kind of have to pick which way you want to look at it.
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