Parents and Me

Believe it or not, most of children in this world always want to have everything more than their parents. Nowadays, children are more mature than their age. They can think about their future even they do not need to think about it yet. They start to think about how to get a better job in the future, how to get enough salary to live, how to build a small family that has love, joy, harmony, and togetherness inside it in their early age. I, for example, as same as the other children, I also want to be more prosperous and success in educating my children more than my parents at their age now.

My parents have strong characteristic in educating me as their child. My parents always teach me how to be an independent and a social person who has a responsibility in doing everything for my life. They always ask me to be someone that they really want and they never give me a freedom to be who I really am. They are always keeping their eyes on my activities without disturbing me. I have ever got an opportunity to study international relationship in Bandung after passing the test. I really want to study about it, but my parents did not let me to take that course. It was not because the international relationship major, but it was because the location of my study. Although they always teach me how to be an independent person, they still did not allow me to take that course. I really hate it and I will not do something like that when I am at their age. I will be more success in educating my children by giving them freedom to be who they really want to be and take course that they really like as long as they can be responsible in studying it seriously. Giving freedom to my children to be what they really want to be does not mean that I do not care about them. I only want to make my children know what the meaning of life is with their own way without any command from me as their parent.

My parents also already have enough money for living. They use that money to prepare food at least 3 times a day, to pay their children educational payment, and also to buy everything that we need. Although my parents already have enough money by working as a policeman and a teacher, I will also be more affluent than my parents when I am at their age by working as a minister of foreign affairs. I will be a minister of foreign affairs after graduating from English Education Department and continuing to study in majoring International Relationship. As I know, becoming a minister of foreign affairs can give me higher salary than working as a police or a teacher like my parents. That is why, I will be more affluent than my parents and I can buy everything that my family needs without forgetting to give 5% of my salary for people who are not as lucky as I am.

Being parents is not an easy job. My parents already did as best as they can for me even sometimes it makes me angry or hate them. I understand about it and I know that become a parents is very challenging because it is not an easy job. At their age, I can imagine that they already did their best for me either it is wrong or right in my eyes. After understanding about what my parents had done for me, I believe that I will be more affluent and success in educating my children more than my parents do at their age now with my own way.