Posted under Life & My Thoughts
I have almost had it with the school reopen thing. Why on earth that when school reopend, it become hell for the students, as well as the working motorist. I just cannot comprehend this! I was stuck for almost 10 minutes just to make a right turn out to the main road. And I owe it all to all these cars going up to the school, be it students, parents, teachers or whoever it is. Its really a big trauma when it comes to schooling days mixed with a little bit of rain. The results are purely disastrous.
It has become in a way shcool holidays are looked forward by the working class motorists. During this time, it’s just blissful to drive to workas it would be so smooth with a bump or two. If you would like it, you can imitate F1 racing on the streets in the morning. But when it comes to the dreaded school days again, streets are crowded, congested and you move like a tortoise during your 1 hour ride to the office.
What happened to the good old days of public transports? I remember I woke up at a little pass 0500 in the morning to get ready for school and then walked out to the bus stop at around 0530. Boarding the bus at around 0600 and reaches the shcool at around 0645 in the morning. A later bus would mean just late for school, which starts at 0720, if I remembered correctly. As far as I am concerned, I do not want to burden my dad or mum to wake up an hour or two earlier just to send me to school. And to my recollection, I have either utilized the school bus during my early primary years and then the public transport, mainly public buses after that until I got my motorcycle license, which led me to motorcycling to school during my six form.
But I believe there’s no one particular person should be blamed but it should be taken up equally by every one. I think parents are being a little too protective about their children and children are too dependant of their parents. I know that many parents have become overly protective, as there has been so much illness shrouding our society nowadays. We hear so much of drug abuse, rape, murder, illegal racing and loads of other stuffs like that, but then again, should we shield them with our mighty and big copper shields. Should we hold and squeeze them so tight until they have no room to breathe?
I know you might say I am no parent, so what do I know about taking care of children of what a parent feels like. But mind you, i was child, teenager and a young adult now, so I know what it feels like to be a child all the way up to a young man. It’s so often that when you move into parenthood, automatically your life before that gets wipedout like a low level format of a memory card or a hard drive. I might not be speaking for everyone, but I believe that we should be given the freedom to make the wrong decisions and actions, so we can learn to appreciate and learn lessons of life. Imagine a person who has never been given the chance to experience poverty, he would not know the value of money. A person whim has never been rejected, mocked does not know the value of acceptance or praise.
On the other hand, when you become dependant, yo are just throwing aways a great part or your life away. I believe that the best times that we can have would always be the things that we do when we do not depend on others. You may have sweet and cherished memory depending on the person you are with, be it parents, loved ones, but the truly amazing things would be for uou to experience with a few friends or alone. Things like bungee jumping, roller coaster rides, all those death invoking and heart attack style stuff that you do. Imagine your mum nags on and on worrying that you might get hurt and stuff when you want to go bungee jumping or a roller coaster ride. What a turn off!
I think we need to learn to be independant rather than dependant as it’s going to afftect our growth. And for parents, I guess being overproctective will hinder a healthy growth for the child. Sometimes you just have to learn to let go. Give them some freedom to explore. But of coz I do not mean let them do what ever they want without your knowledge or supervision. It’s always easier said than donecoz our emotions always get the better of us.
To be protective or not to be
To be dependant or not to be
Which do you choose?
