As a toddler, you look at your parent as your lifeline. They feed you, clothe you, love you and you know you really couldn't exist without them.
As you turn into a teenager, you dance on the precipice of omnipotence. Your parents are surely only trying to hold you back, stifle you, restrain you, confine you. Why else would there be all these rules and expectations?
As you enter adulthood, you slowly begin to realize that some of those life lessons they taught you have come in pretty handy. Ethics top the list. Persistence and determination follow closely behind. Sincerity, generosity, honesty, and loyalty bring up the rear.
As you become a parent, you realize the blessed burden that has been granted to you. You must endure the agony of only being able to guide, without doing the walking; steer, without taking the wheel; support, without taking control; love, without boundary-free zones. It is a fine line to walk. And, most of the time, if we do it correctly . . . we find we are turning into our parents.
To be completely honest, if I turn out to be one tenth of what my mother was, I will be thrilled!
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