Thursday, November 23, 2006
Swimming Pool
Parents are like the walls of a swimming pool of the water of life. When you first start out learning how to swim, you tend to hang on to the walls for dear life, till you begin to learn how to kick, to propel yourself, to survive. Slowly, bit by bit, you leave the walls behind, weaning off your reliance on them. If one day you feel tired struggling in the middle of that pool, in need of a rest, all you have to do is head back to lean on those walls again. They will always be there for you. I know this may not apply to some people, but in life, there are always exceptions. I once read somewhere that parents exist for their children to have something to act against, and that is so true. Even over the most minor things, children have a tendency to oppose, to rebel, to retaliate. Like professional swimmers in a race, the wall exist for you to kick against for your back flips, to change direction, to head you in the correct direction, to give you thrust.
Keep on swimming, but do not forget those walls.
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