When I was a teenager, I had a really difficult time communicating with adults…especially women. My mom and I had an especially hard time understanding each other. On a typical day, I would come home from a long, grueling day at school full of monotonous monologues about math and a slew of tired teachers who constantly demanded silence and attention from us, the restless pupils.
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As I sit here at my desk, I type with one hand. Not because I like to make things more difficult than they should be, or because I lost a hand in some gallant effort to save a small family of kittens from a large dog on the attack. No, nothing like that.
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Every parent must know what it feels like to be taken for granted. As a young person, it’s hard to realize how much your parents are taking care of for you behind the scenes. I graduated from college in May 2008, and have been slowly realizing since then just how much I took my parents for granted.
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I spent a weekend down at my grandparents’ farm in southern Alabama with my wife recently and we had a wonderful time hiking in the woods, catching catfish, eating until we felt like we were going to explode, and relaxing in the living room gleaning wisdom and insight from two respectable people with 70+ years of life experience under their belt.
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