Parents, they have the best intentions for us. They want us to grow up and become something in life, to thrive and live to the fullest. 'Don't hold back' just words you hear and blow off from time to time. When we're little they hold our hands to do everything, they dress us, brush our hair and drop us off at day care while they go to work. Then we move into school and we make friends, play dates here and there, stolen kisses from the boy or girl you like and yet they still hold your hand and laugh at the silly things we do.
We start middle school and become independant, we only need rides to meet friends, or to go on 'dates', if they'r even that. We go to our first dances and find out they're not at all what they live up to be. You make bad decisions and do things that are dumb, gettin away with lying and going through 'break-ups' but they still hold you in their arms and tell you they love you.
High School, glorified. Being older and able to do things we weren't able to do in middle school and going to homecoming, football games, being a cheerleader, a football player, whatever you want. A theatre geek, a musician at heart, a writer, a jock, a prep it's all catergorized. You make friends you lose some. Some move away and go on their own path, you won't hear from them for awhile. But life goes on.
This is the part where they put their foot down. They make you do things you don't want to do. They want you do be successful and thrive. But sometimes they push and push and tell you this is where you need to go, even though years back they told you, you had the freedom to choose, but do we?
Is that the case we hit a certain age and they change they're minds. We say one thing and they want us to do the other.. We rebel when they want us to be the good kid. WE would never lie..no, we would never do such things. We aren't perfect, not at all. We've lied, messed up, done somethings they would kill us for, drugs and drank..what did they expect though? They lived once too.
Day care, Pre-school, Elementary, Middle school, High School, the steps we take to growning up. When we finally reach high school and they let us run, we reach the end of the journey for high school and they pull in the reins, I'm not five anymore. I can make my own mistakes and decisions. But you have to let us live. Let go. We are growing into something more. We will be successful and thrive, just let us find that right success, and help us when we ask. We love you, but don't hold us back.
We're just taking the steps you want in a different way.
