My Parents
by Yogesh Malhotra
 I am going to share about my parents. They always stopped me from doing things till my school-going age. After getting admission in the college, I discussed with them about my freedom. They asked me to follow their commands as I had not yet turned intelligent; and they had all the experience of their entire life with them. But I always did what I wanted to do, and will keep doing so in future as well. I will mention one of the instances: The father of one of my friends was suffering from cancer and so, her mood was always downbeat. I started talking to her so that she could enjoy her life a bit. One day I told my parents about her. They didn't say anything. But when there came a medical emergency to help her, they forbade me from going and helping her. Their way of thinking was that blood was always thicker than water and there was no need to try thickening the latter. They have a limited people to talk to in their social life. But I am not like them. Rather I love to talk to all around me and I always did that. Like all other parents, mine are also very possessive about me. They even don't let me go out to some other city to live. But I want to live my life like a bird. And they keep giving me instructions of this sort and that. In fact they even scold me many times. There are so many instances of that. I think it happens with everyone in life.
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