familiarity

the homily during the mass last sunday left me thinking...

"ones you are familiar with a person,

you see both their good and bad sides."

a no-brainer right? common sense logic.

what really caught my attention was when he said the reason why teenagers are rebellious sometimes is because they have been too familiar and too comfortable with their parents,

and vice versa.

they know the weakness and strengths of each other.

there is that feeling of too much equality that respect is already lost in the process.

i'm sorry i am not good with words and i can't explain it well,

but i'm sure if you all heard the priest that day,

you would all understand it better.

having too much familiarity can easily cloud judgement.

this not only applies in legal cases, or in school, or in other public places.

it is also very well evident in our homes, with our families.

how come parents immediately get angry at their teens even before the teens could explain themselves?

because the parents have been too familiar with their teens that they think they already know the reason why the children did such an act.

the same with a teen who does thinks behind the parents,

because they are already familiar wit how the parents would react if they knew what the teens were doing.

as you can see, poor judgement and misunderstanding creates chaos and anxiety between family members.

"i'm not saying that we do not get familiar with the people around us.

we just have to learn to keep a little something for our-self." (^_^)