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The Moment We Realize We’re Becoming Like Our Parents
We have to create our own path for ourselves, while also recognizing how far we’ve come
If you’ve watched the movie, The Breakfast Club, you might remember one of the iconic scenes where the characters all come together and talk about their home lives. In that scene, the conversation goes a little something like this —
Andrew: My God, are we gonna be like our parents?
Claire: (teary) Not me…ever
Allison: It’s unavoidable, it just happens.
When I was a teenager, I used to say the same exact thing — I used to think that I could never become like my parents; that I would never become like them. I used to think that I broke the mold; that I’d be a game changer. Now that I’m older, I’m starting to realize that it really is unavoidable. In some way, shape, or form, there are pieces of us that we inevitably take away from them.
My parents grew up in a completely different time period, in a completely different…
