Rebuilding Rob

As WordPress continues to recycle old prompts, I pulled another prompt from The Coffee Monsterz Co to respond to today

What is something you wish your parents did differently?

In general, I’m happy with the upbringing I had. Growing up, and never really went without. For the most part, I got everything I ever needed and even most things I ever wanted. There is still the matter of the USS Flagg, but I digress. And yes, I’m joking about that.

But if there is one thing I wish my parents had done differently, it would be preparing my siblings and I for how mean people are in the world.

People are jerks. Bullies are everywhere. I’m not suggesting I wish my parents practiced some “tough love” or anything, I just wish they would have warned me how cruel people can be.

But being a parent of myself now, I understand. I’ve always wanted to shield both kid 1 and kid 2 from all of the negativity and generally bad things this world has to offer. and of course, this is not realistic. At some point, you have to let your proverbial little birdies fly on their own. We’re all going to have good times and bad times. We’re going to experience happiness. We’re going to experience hurt.

I just felt like I wasn’t ready for how mean people could be while I was growing up. But maybe none of us ever are. That’s the point. Maybe kinda like getting your heart broken. Maybe it’s something like the matrix, you can’t really be told what it is – you have to experience it for yourself.

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