I wonder why some people choose to continuously criticize others for the wrong things that they do, but never appreciate them for all the good.
My parents (and many others', I'm sure) are perhaps the epitome of such people. Every day it's "do this do that" then go away for a few minutes only to come back and interrupt while I'm busy doing something, to give me even more orders. Sometimes I feel that they forget I am not their servant. Is it really that difficult to spit out a "please" and "thank you" once in a while?
But what frustrates me even more is regardless of me following their every whim, all hell breaks loose when I don't do one thing to their exact specifications. And they have the nerve to accuse me of being ungrateful and lazy, and proceed to ask me why I'm giving them an attitude.
I look forward to the day I move out, just to see how my parents will cope without me.
Who will be there to help you fill out forms? Call to refill your prescriptions? Talk to the server to explain just how you want your order? Book your flights and hotel rooms? Read through manuals to understand how to assemble and work some thing you bought? Print and organize your "important documents"? Call for technical support? Take care of grandma because you don't feel like dealing with your own family? Attend family gatherings in your place for the same reason as the above? Figure out why something isn't working? And all that other things you can do yourself but are to lazy to do?
"We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone."
Boris Yeltsin
And that is a sad truth.
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