They (parents) use this guilt-tripping to stop you from fulfilling your plans, but most important, from believing something they don’t (something which contradicts their beliefs)

We are all entitled to our own share of mistakes and learning experiences in life. No one should take them away from us. Not even our parents.

If parents want “success stories” to share at gatherings they should provide themselves with those, and they should not use their children for that purpose.

Who said that parents’ beliefs should be adopted by their children?

The time to build your future is in your teenage years and your 20s, but equally, in your 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond.

Young adults rebel against the pre-invented/ packaged world, but sooner or later they stop and they also become proponents of the tried and true.