I've been thinking about life's accomplishments, how you graduate High Schoole, go to/graduate from college, get married, then have possibly have kids. Not everyone enjoys all these, but they are the average American things to do. Then for us parents, life is pretty much over, at least in terms of our accomplishing anything. We now just get to enjoy and live vicariously through our children's accomplishments, overemphasizing what they have done--turned over, said Dada, or taken first steps. It's all about them at this point, anything else you go on to do as a person, get a Ph. D. or write a novel, is just gravy but certainly not necessary.
I find it all very relaxing. No more pressure. Just keep the kid in school and off drugs and in about 30 years he should be coming to the same realization that I am that life's major accomplishments are over, at least in the personal success sense.
Posted by cmwillis at August 31, 2003 5:05 PM | TrackBack