Parents, what do your children owe you, how should they repay you? Surely the owe you everything that you have given to them, after all, without life they would not have anything. In which case, they owe you all the happiness which you have given to them, and all the respect you have given to them. To be fair now, we'll have to recognize that a large portion of their happiness did not, in fact, come from you. Additionally, if you want to be repaid for all the good things, it would be fair if you also received payment for all of the bad things; any sort of emotional trauma which you have dealt them, should be dealt to you, given that without you they could not have had that experience.
Wow, there is something seriously wrong with that above. Though I must confess, it is fairly strange and unfair to only focus on the positive aspects of a relationship. It's not really fair to say that someone owes you all that you've given them, except for everything bad. It's akin to demand someone pay you back, but refusing to pay your debt to that person. Still, I do not think that children owe their parents anything, negative or positive.
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