Hey everyone! So ever since I started going to school here at Humboldt State in August 2011, I have made quite a few life-changing discoveries about myself and about this unfathomable thing we refer to as "life." Incidentally, the epiphany that this blog is based on can be explained in one cliché phrase, which you have probably heard countless times - "Mother is always right."
Probably, a lot of us college students have figured out by now that eating vitamin C or wearing a jacket when it's cold or getting things done on time are pretty beneficial when it comes to a healthy, productive lifestyle. Whether we listened to our parents initially or learned these things through mistakes of our own is beside the point. In my opinion, families, especially the members that are older than you, are there to support and to teach. Humans have grown accustomed to relying on their families, sometimes their whole lives, for shelter, sustenance, and advice.
Now, I recognize that every family dynamic is different. I was lucky to grow up in a relatively functional family with level-headed, strong, loving parents. As a teenager, I definitely had difficulty seeing any side to a story other than my own, but over the last few months I have grown to find that almost every piece of advice my parents thought to give me has been (or will be, I expect) helpful in years to come. Some of you, though, may be reading this and disagreeing with me completely, unable to think of a single valuable lesson that you learned from your parents. What I would like to know is whether you truly learned nothing, or if the differences in our upbringings have made it harder to see that maybe those nagging, know-it-all, and sometime self-righteous parents really do know a thing or two about life.
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