Parents

Where does the common stereotype of an Asian parent come from? Probably from the very parents themselves. God help me, I could never stand it when my parents always go off on their own tiny little world filled with lecturing and berating of their own child (or children). Almost atleast twice a month my father suddenly starts criticizing everything I do for absolutely nothing outta the blue. I'd just be sitting around minding my own business and he starts going on about me wasting my life doing nothing. And I'm just sitting there doing my homework wondering what the hell it is this time.

Why do parents feel a need to push their kids along...? If the kid is content with his lot in life, why the hell do they always push and shove them to try for more? So what if your friend's kid is valedictorian and getting a 5.0 GPA? Does it look like I give a crap about some other kid? What the hell is the point of me even trying my best if you're just gonna shoot me down half-way and go off on a rant about some other kid that's better than me. Why not just trade kids and keep the smart one?

Why do they always compare you to their friend's kids and talk about how he's so great at school and will go places in life? It's as if they're too busy admiring someone else to be proud of you. Then again, aren't most parents like that, regardless of race or nationality? Sure, they want you to succeed in life, but the more they push, the more we push back. It's as if our lives are completely dictated by them. Get good grades in school, practice some skills, be popular, get into college, find a high paying job, etc, etc... Always with the freakin' plan. Now we know why there's an Emancipation law... And why there's so many teenage runaways.

"Hey look Daddy, I wanna be a contractor when I grow up!" "Oh no son, you've gotta be good in school and be a doctor when you grow up." Epic dream killer right there. Why can't adults just try to understand that it's our lives and that we decide what to do with it. Have they even stopped to think that maybe I don't want to work for some big-time company when I grow up and sit behind a desk 24/7 in a 10" x 10" cubicle? Or some lawyer or doctor or whatever high paying job that pollute the minds of parents.

Maybe parents praise and worship other people's children right in front of your face to motivate us to work harder? If that's the case, they have done an amazing job at screwing that up. Yeah, nothing motivates teens more than their own parents berating them and practically kissing ass to some other kid. It'll totally inspire us to try harder in school. I don't know about you, but if my parents do that (which they do), I'd just stop trying; since whatever I do will always be compared to some other kid that I don't even know. I mean, what's the point of trying if they're not even going to bother to see it?

I'm not saying that you shouldn't try hard in school, but don't do it because you want to make your parents proud of you. They're afraid that if they show any pride or praise, you'd see that as a sign of acceptance and stop trying. Society is just screwed up that way, isn't it? Always with it's hypocrisy and complexity.

I always wonder why parents always praise others and never their own children. They always praise how my cousin is a class valedictorian and being accepted to Harvard or something... And I always respond with "He's a obsessive freak that studies every night and playing videogames til dawn". They always tell me that I only look at the bad parts. Isn't that basically what they're doing??? But with the good stuff??? One of the number one reasons kids don't do well in school is because they don't have enough emotional support at home. I mean, what kid would want to try hard if they already know that the minute they get home, they're going to hear about how so-and-so got a hundred percent on their test or how what's-his-name got straight A's on their report card. Why don't you just slap us in the face and tell us that we'll never amount up to anything? (Which has happened to me before... The amount to anything part, not the slapping part.)

So parents... Why don't you get off our asses once in a while? Maybe then we'll feel the motivation to actually try. Yeah....................................................................

PS: Damn! One word away from 800. So I'll just add a random word at the end of the conclusion.