I’ve often heard the phrase “In order for children to truly succeed, their parents must die.” I don’t know who wrote this very cynical statement, but I do believe it to be at least partially true. I have not personally been on the other side of things, because both of my parents are still alive. I do often wonder what I would be like if my parents were not around to stop me from doing anything and everything I wanted to. I can tell you one thing is for sure, I’d probably be a lot worse off right now than I am with my parents.

I think the statement has validity only because without parents, you don’t have someone to lecture you. Without someone to lecture you, you can do whatever it is you wish to do. This might be good, if you were doing something good. Similarly, I think it would be bad, if you were doing something bad. Without my parents as a safety net, who knows where I’d be…probably dead in a ditch on the side of the road somewhere…Okay, well maybe not that bad, but I would be a different person.

There’s an inherent risk in losing your parents, your safety net. The statement would be more accurate if it claimed “The child can be free once his parents have died.” Free to do whatever he or she wants, whether that be succeed triumphantly or fail miserably.

You may be asking why I’m writing this, this will be probably be one of my very few random blogs, because I just need to fill space on my brand spanking new website.

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