As an Adolescent Child, Leaving the Comfort Zone

Parents would hardly understand, just as you won't if your pet ( a cat, if you love cats) of many years is big enough to be undomesticated ( a cat leaves home when it is growing too big) . That's a pet. Now imagine how it would feel for a mama who carried you for months unseen and you emerged, with tiny-parts that later marvellingly developed to you.

At teenage, there's this era of defiance and deviance. Not only to parents but to social standards, schools, God etc. That's why upright habits formed at this age is hard to kill and the otherwise too. Characteristically, the child's appetite for risk is often unreasonable and the world, as its full of explore, is also full of exploits. The parent, conscious of this, wishes to guide their child through their experience, regrets, and feats. While to such child, its an overbearing doting.

Your mind to your parents is like a new novel that every chapter holds episodic suspense. They see you developing that independent rationality that marvels them; You of tiny parts years ago. How do you treat your favourite and most sensational novel that you are yet to fully devour it's climactic chapters? You won't want to release it to the world just as your parents seek to have you close.

Anyway, we are prayerfully expected to outlive our parents. Thus every moments with them may be filled with 'wahala' and brouhaha but it's opportunity cost in the nearest future when separation will be compulsory, no money will be able to buy it.

Be good now and they will be happy forever.

Forget that air of independence, my sibling.

Stay as long as you can and pay your dues.

---Toonday

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