14 Unexpected Ways Your Relationship With Your Parents Changes As You Get Older
As you get older, you realize that your parents were people before they were your parents.
As you get older, you realize that your parents were people before they were your parents.
“One’s man terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.”
But an abuse or misuse of pain renders us traitors not only to ourselves, but to mankind.
You fall head over heels and usually begin the anguish of analyzing and overanalyzing everything they do, and everything you do in relation to them.
And perhaps that’s what makes vulnerability so difficult – seeing your state of being, when you remove all the embellishments and pretenses and performances.
All good boyfriends do not see you as less than. (Sorry active misogynists, you are automatically disqualified.)
“Have you seen the movie, The Gods Must Be Crazy? My uncle was in it!”
You get to avoid most, if not all the mistakes of tragically overeager early doers.
And we make commitments and promises and vows, and we love; the best of us love until it hurts. But still I say, this might not be as hard as we all make it out to be.
The struggle that is trying to tell or re-tell a joke that only makes sense in a particular language or cultural context, and failing miserably.