Aren't Parents Always Right?

I know I have touched on this before but I thought I was right! Don’t we always want to be right? Doesn’t being right make God love us more? Don’t we sleep better at night when we are right? Uh… yeah… sure it does until your kid resents you. They may not even speak to you for a while. Thank goodness it didn’t go that far with my oldest daughter. I just wanted her to have fun! I wanted her to enjoy her youth. I wanted her freely experience her years before reality and bills set in. I wanted her to just fly by the seat of her pants and enjoy life. I really didn’t get to do that, so I wanted her too. I wanted her to realize the only barriers to enjoying life are the ones set by law and more importantly, herself. That is where my thinking went wrong. This was what I was thinking, not her. I have no idea what life is like as a 21 year old woman in today’s world. I really don’t know firsthand the culture of her friends, her college or the apartment complex in which she lives. I don’t know what she considers a threat to her energetic field or the situations that exceed her comfort zone. Plain and simple, I don’t know. Perhaps for me in this instance, innocence is bliss. I have the feeling my head would spin if I understood everything about the culture of today’s 20 through 30 year olds. This situation brings me back to when I was a new nurse in the intensive care unit. I was caring for a gentleman who was in his 60’s and actively having a heart attack. I cared for him the same way I would have cared for any other patient. For some reason, the man didn’t see it that way and after he recovered, wanted to have more than a nurse/patient relationship! Dude, you could be my grandfather I wanted to say, and I respectfully declined. I later told my mother about the scenario. She thought it was hysterical and wanted me to be nice to him! Well, I only wanted to go by my definition of nice and run each time I passed his room. My mom had no clue of the circumstances in which I worked and what I considered a threat. How could she? She didn’t live in my body. All she could do was go by her own life history. That is all any of us can really do, advise from experience. Key word – Advise. Listen, advise, offer words of your own wisdom and lovingly let go. There is no one way to do anything. There is no right way for everyone. There is only what is in your heart & mind and ultimately it is between you and God. Thank Goodness!
Sorry kid, I will do better. Love ya!