This is one of the rules that everybody’s supposed to live
by, but rarely does. Listening to your parents and actually doing what they
tell you can be so hard sometimes…Especially when you’re old enough to see that
they are not all-knowing and bulletproof.
This makes taking their advice that much harder as you grow
up. But the older I get, the more I see that…I miss that. I miss being
absolutely sure that if I tell my parents about this or that problem I may be
having, it will be solved as if by magic. They might be angry with me at first,
but they’ll help. Because they’re all-powerful and all-wise.
And now…this confidence
is gone. I've
seen them make mistakes; I know they don’t always make the right
choices. I love them, but I know that my parents are human. This, I think, is
the hardest part of becoming an adult. Realizing that there’s no magic solution
to every problem in your parents’ heads.
And it’s exactly the time when it hits you: someday, you’ll
be someone’s invincible problem-solver. If you’re planning on becoming a parent
someday, that is. And it’s kind of terrifying. That goes to show that I,
personally, am not ready to become a mother. I am in no way prepared to be a
superwoman for a little girl or boy who’s going to look up to me and believe
whole-heartedly that I can do anything.
This is a good way to see if you’re ready. So…do. If you’re
thinking of giving birth to a child at 20, ask yourself: can I be invincible? If
only for the next 18 years.
