Friday 30 October 2015

Things Indian parents need to pipe down about : PRIVACY

Ever seen your parents creeping outside your room or noticed them eavesdropping when you talk over the phone? Even the coolest of parents may deny doing so but they do. They just love their kids a lot.
But when  the same love and concern exceeds regular levels and you find them not just interfering but trying to take control of almost everything in your life, it becomes too much to handle. That's where every teen's patience ends and rebellion begins.

When it comes to restricting someone; the more you try to tie them down, the harder they try to break free. And once they do, they can't be dragged down again.
Invading personal space is one of the most offensive things one can to do another. It's almost the same as acting like a search dog and going after a drug stash, the only difference is that the person snooping around isn't doing anything remotely good. Parents always try to justify going through your stuff, checking your phone when you're not around, reading your diary and jumping to baseless conclusions, interrogating you as if you're a terrorist when you wish to go out and many of the million annoying things Indian parents do; by saying that they're simply concerned and want to know what their kid is up to.

Every parent wants to know what goes on in their kids' heads but they need to accept the fact that they're not Edward Cullen. The number of heart attacks at a time in India would rise by millions if that were possible,
 If not supernatural powers, they decide to snoop around in the weirdest ways ever. Confiscating phones, prohibiting kids from using wi-fi, grounding them for life does no good but turns them into modern day cavemen, if not a better person. Technology is something Indian parents don't get and they probably won't. Ever. What I completely fail to understand is buying the latest gadgets themselves and knowing absolutely nothing about exploiting them and letting their kids have hand-me-downs that hardly function and then asking the kids to help them configure the same gadgets they long to own but see their parents totally wasting them. Damn.
That's not being in control, but being a sadist.

Our parent do love us a lot and are only being careful but they sometimes go overboard with things. Okay, well, most of the time. Almost all the time.

Love doesn't need to be a leash.

-The Geek.