Control

Seems to me as if everyone wants to be able to control someone else. They dont like what they say or do or believe so they try to change them. They try to control them by making them not do or do certain things. As children we know we have to listen to our parents and act according to what they say is right or what we should do. We anxiously await the day when we are officially an adult and dont have to worry about following their rules or being punished for not coming home by curfew. We count down those days sometimes for years before our birthday. We do all this in anticipation of freedom only to find out freedom doesnt exist. When we become an adult, we may not have to care or worry about what our “parents” rules are or what they say or think, but along with gaining our personal freedom from them, we also gain a handful more people who’s opinions and rules matter. We become responsible for our own actions which causes us to now be controlled by society as a whole. Now we are under the power and watch of the government, our bosses at work, our family and friends, and anyone else who decides they want to stick their noses in our business instead of minding their own.

On a side note, part of the reason for this is because as parents we are failing to teach our children about respect, courtesy, poise, and privacy most of all. Parents become wrapped in their own work lives and making sure we look “normal” to society by focusing on them attending school and participating in extra curricular activities that we forget about showing them the basic principals to human interaction. Parents overlook the fact that kids need to be shown how to respect eachother and they need to be taught the concept of live and let live, teamwork, and family. Without these basic understandings, we, as humans, become disrespectful, nosey, obnoxious, pushy, greedy, and disloyal to those around us through out life which makes this world a very cruel and cold place to live in. It also allows them to feel that they can and should be able to control actions of other people around them instead of respecting the other person and who they are or what they believe as we should.