The twins have recently been hanging-out in our (mine and Raine’s) little apartment. Back from their summer vacation in Bicolandia and waiting for classes to resume in a couple of weeks. Teenagers are just so difficult to deal with…they always feel that they know better. They do not appreciate the fact that in their generation, they are so much luckier than those that came before them. Resources and technology is at their disposal that would have been tools to make life easier, for them to accomplish and achieve more in life (at the moment, academic excellence). But it seems that these resources and technology available to them instead became distractions and a huge excuse to be lazy and not strive for the best.
I’m tired of nagging them to do better…that it’s for their own good not mine. The “during our time we didn’t have…but we were able to…” -lines just doesn’t work anymore. Whichever way they look at it, you turn out into the ogre that didn’t understand them…who wants to make their life miserable.
So I surrender with two hands up in the air. Now I let them be, to go ahead and discover life with all its many facets of the negatives and positives. I guess that the best way to teach them about life itself is letting them live it their way. It’s not easy to let them go like that without a struggle deep within me…If I would have any control, I only want them to have more of life’s positives and less of the negatives.
Oh…If they would only heed without much fuss to simple things like: that “Smallville” is not the original “Superman” movie; that the song “Let the love begin” was originally sung by Gino Padilla and Rocky and the Kyla-Jerome John Hughes version is just a remake(mix).
Well, if this is any prelude to the kind of arguments that I’m going to have with my Raine in the future…I’m going to get crazy just thinking about it now. So I’ll take the easy way out and just cross the bridge when I get there.