Freedom and our parents

Although hard to see a reason why, the truth is that when we are born, we belong to our parents. We depend on them for everything but breathing air. It is them who teach us the language, in its basics. It is them who show us how to behave in society, so that we don't get ostracized from it. We come to this world inside the body of our mother, and we become a part of the family, a part of something and the whole of nothing. This condition, nevertheless, is only temporary. After a certain number of years, we will see the world outside the family, outside the house, with eagerness. We become avid drinkers of the spirituous air from outside, even from abroad. We decide that there's some for us, too, and that we might be able to live a life of our own. Indeed, there's still some good stuff to enjoy inside the family home, but we need to understand that every parent is also a human, and as a human they are the center of their own life. When they declare that their kids are their life, what they're actually saying is that will do whatever prove to be necessary to nurture them and protect them from sickness or mishap. That "they" "will" "do". It's they who act, they who strive. Not the kids, or anybody else. Once the kids are ready to engage themselves in the labor circuit, and provide their own food and money, living in the house won't change the dynamics of leadership, vis-à-vis, power.