Youth's Call for Entitlement
Confined to a room in hall lies your ticket to freedom
Bound by the rules of the hall is your starting point to grown up life
Having your own bank account is your start to financial planning
But then do you know that your desire of privacy space pushes us away
The spatial spaces of your private room in a hall is your living space limits
The rules and laws calls for discipline and responsibility of grown up world
The bank account is just your privileges out of hard earned savings.
Youth is calling for independence, freedom and privacy space
Youth is trying to claim their entitlement
To what they think belongs to them which they should use up
To what they think is the utopia of transcend into young adulthood
To what they think is one of their last major draw out before they reach maturity by law
But what is entitlement that they think they can claim ?
What could they possibly claim as if the world owes them something ?
What parents should release to them that is our own now ?
When as parents gave birth to you, you are our child
When we care for and nature you, we are parenting you
When we set rules and restrictions, we are disciplining you
When we tell you life stories of our family, we are coaching you
When we repeat grandpa folk tales to you, we are telling you the family legacy
When we plan to give you the best of education, we are preparing to build your own career
When we give you financial support, we are supporting you while you learn responsibility
When we give you until we have no more, what remains is our love for you.
When you reach 18 and then finally 21, you learn to grow up
With your own room, you have to be responsible for it
With privacy space, you have to cope with loneliness
With living on your own, you have to learn communal sharing with others
With your own bank account, you have to plan to live sensibly
With your living away from home, you have to learn rules and laws
With living on your own, you are responsible for your health
With your daily routines, you have to set out your very own self-discipline
Your entitlement is your birthrights as our child
As your parents, you have our love forever
As your parents, we will coach you like nagging
As your parents, we will provide for you from limited finances
As your parents, we will discipline you with boundaries
As your parents, we are not immortal
And when we are gone, we hope you find your legacy to live on
The day you start living for yourself you understand what entitlement really means
Footnote :-
How this came to be ?
I had a good sharing with Jane and Yong about youth and the challenges of youth keep claiming entitlement in our family lives. I wrote most part of this while waiting for Jane to make her new pair of spectacles.
Brentford, 12 September 2015
No comments:
Post a Comment