<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459553" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Parents (like, who needs them?)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the staff room after Parents’ Day<br>we used to shake our prematurely<br>gray heads and contemplate<br>the Zen-ness of our well-worn truism: <br>‘Parents are the least suitable<br>people to have children’…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">EMForster said, we begin by<br>loving our parents; later<br>we judge them; rarely<br>if ever, do we forgive them..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The other day, some pseudo-quiz<br>for exposure-hungry celebs<br>asked, what is the most disliked<br>thing about parents? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the pollsters did their thing<br>and found it was, their taste in music..<br>I guess that tells you something<br>about the depth of culture</div><div style="margin:10px 0">though I suspect many teenagers<br>really think, it’s the gross, unspeakable way<br>that they go on having sex after we’re born…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">however, this alleged poem is getting<br>way off track from its solemn message<br>which might, just might, be India’s<br>greatest if unproveable gift to the West<br>and all who whinge about their parents and <br>what they did and didn’t do for us…: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">karma: that the way you lived your previous life<br>fixed it via the absolute computer that<br>you were born in the most propitious<br>time and place and parentage<br>to continue the journey of your soul<br>on its way to the bliss of freedom<br>from all worldly attachments<br>such as, e.g. parents; older siblings; and<br>the rest you’ll have to fill in for yourself</div><div style="margin:10px 0">remembering of course in your compassion that<br>it was karma for your long-suffering parents too; <br>you were their justice; and they, yours..</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459553" data-title="Parents (like, who needs them?) de Michael Shepherd" data-description="In the staff room after Parents’ Day we used to shake our prematurely gray heads and contemplate the Zen-ness of our well-worn truism: ‘Parents are the least suitable people to have children’… EMForster said, we begin by loving our paren..."></div> </div> </div>

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