Don't get trapped

It's pretty easy to fall into the trap of thinking that your parents don't understand what it's like to be a teenager, or that they are being stupidly concerned about things, or are too boring to allow you to enjoy yourself. I'm realizing that assumptions like that are totally wrong.

I was talking to my dad yesterday, and he was telling me tidbits about his life when he was my age. No, not the 'you kids have it so great these days...' stories, but just about some of his friendships. What was really interesting was all the parallels I could draw to my life directly. He had a group of three friends that he would spend a lot of time with (A, S, M), one of them was his best friend, and they were best men for each other (A). His best friend was going out with one of the two girls (A & S). It was as if he was more or less describing my life with different names...

That's why I'm looking at things with a totally different perspective now. It's not like our parents didn't go through this sort of thing years ago, they had to live their lives too. When they get all concerned and say that they don't want us to do things, there are reasons they say so. Maybe sometimes they aren't seeing the entire picture, maybe they have presumptions that cannot be overcome, but they still have reasons for doing the things that they do.

On that note, can I please go to the party?



:P