WEEK-IN #4

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Last week, I've put out the thoughts from a child's perspective. Now, this is from the other side of the spectrum i.e., the Parent's perspective.

Invisible Pressure 2

Most/All of middle-class parents today have come from a lower-class background. They either used to work while they study, or used to work with no study at all. No-school seems fun to today's generation of kids, but the respect you get while you are a child is from your studies. They knew it, but there were families who couldn't afford to send their children to school due to multiple reasons. Even if you go to school, it would've been mostly students and books with minimal support.

They've tried to push themselves for so many years to bring up the income so that everyone in the family can lead a better life than their younger self. They've taken jobs that are tough on mental and physical health just to make sure their children could lead a better life than what they've experienced.

They have been building this empire of happiness and luxury and they've built only the basement of it. There is a lot more to build and they hope that their children take it over from them someday and keep building higher and higher.

Here comes the pressure from society. If all the society includes only people building their empires then that would've been fine. But, there are also people who have built their empires to the highest point and we all look forward to them. Parents investigate all kinds of pathways leading to that highest point and try to give all the pathways of less effort to their children. Yet, here we are not taking in those decades of research.

The problem in today's generation are those empires are growing higher and higher every single day and there are hundreds of ways introduced to reach it every year. That doesn't mean we children don't take the decades of research done by our parents. We all embrace the results of that research and build our new paths convenient to our generation.

We children are the beacon of our family and should be taking forward the torch from them to our future.

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