There are obvious merits about living with one's parents. Clean laundry, home-cooked meals and a fully stocked fridge, to name a few. But still, I feel a longing to leave and lead a life of my own.
I know I will miss the home-cooked meals, and clean laundry, the fully stocked fridge, breakfast in the morning and everything else, but something feels missing - direction.
It's not that one cannot have a direction in life just because he is living under the same roof as his parents, its just.. there are so many things that you just have to learn yourself, on your own, in your own crisis.
Celebrating so many 21st birthdays led me to thinking.. What is all this fanfare about "attaining adulthood" if you cannot cook your own meal? Wash your own laundry? Iron your own clothes? Live independently? Perhaps we have grown older in age, but have we truly matured? Are we truly wiser than a year ago?
I truly appreciate all that my family has done for me, and it is not out of any lack of love for them that I have such sentiments, but there is so much to learn, so much that you cannot learn under the shelter of unconditional love. It may sound condescending, but I sincerely do not want to burden them unnecessarily.
This longing to leave, is it a want for freedom?
*PICTURE WAS UPLOADED ON JANUARY 1,2006 BY CHAUSS513 ON FLICKR.COM.
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