The infuriating stance of an ambush is the stock in trade of one whose inability to recognise the need to take others into confidence and consideration on matters for which resource and means would be desired.
To have suffered
skirmishes of this sort without remedy or remediation is not just taxing but
frustrating. You decline to be confrontational even when it is called for,
deferring and genuflecting in the hope that reticence and reluctance would
convey a message that words have failed to attempt.
Don’t kid the kids
The generational
baton is held tight in geriatric obstinacy with the expectation that each
command gets commensurate and submissive attention and acquiescence. The
terms of this game are changing as the words hit the page.
How we selfishly
forget that the quality of cultivated relationships from forebear to descendant
presents the template for them to engage the world. Defy the laws of courtesy
in managing that flow and strip them of autonomy, agency, and the ability to hold
their heads high because the frame of reference is poor.
After the entreaty of
interlocutors and intermediaries, if not at one’s wit's end, one can confidently
say there is neither obligation nor responsibility to fulfil. If you cannot be
respected, then nothing should be expected. It is not a transaction; it is virtue parents must learn by adaptation or coercion.
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