Parents and Children (Don't Take This Too Seriously)

It occurred to me today why parents (or should) put so much time and effort into their children, and I wonder why I never thought of this before.

When creating a child, the parents give parts of themselves (literally) to make them. In a sense you are your parent, and your parents are your grandparents, and so on and so forth. Not exactly of course but they gave part of themselves (not a rib mind you) to make you.

So going from that perspective it makes sense to me why if I had children I would pay attention to them and make sure they do well. If I built a car I'd want it to run perfectly. Why should a kid be any different? As a parent you put something out in the world that represents you in every possible way. You build a shitty house and people live in it and hate it, you're going to look bad. You have a kid and he's out there spray painting cats, assaulting girls, and flunking school you're sure as shit going to look bad.

So when you're dad is red in the face and spitting 'cause you got fired at your job at Target for stealing, it's not just because he loves you (though he may not). It's because you made him look like an idiot for not raising you right. Way to go asshole.