As classes resume and we start our journey away from home, we all tend to get sucked into this new life that’s somehow now our daily schedule. There are a ton of new friends, lots of parties, and even more assignments from our lovely professors. It’s so easy to forget home and the people you left behind. That is until you get that phone call from your parents, whom you simply forward to your voicemail. You know you could’ve and probably should’ve answered, but you’re about to go meet up with some friends for supper-- your parents can wait another few hours.
Stop. Think.
Call your parents back.
Eighteen years ago, you became your parents’ pride and joy and for some reason, you still are today. You’ve let them down a countless amount of times, called them names that you’ve regretted the moment they left your lips and spent hours and hours arguing about things that wouldn’t matter in the long run. But you’ve also laughed with them, cried to them, and even became a little scared when they dropped you off at school for the last time. The older you get, the more you realize that your parents truly are #goals; hell, if they’ve put up with you this long then they must be pretty amazing. At this age, it’s so easy to forget that your parents were 18 once; they know how hard school is, how mean friends can be and how hard being alone is. You know that moment at the end of a terribly rough day when you’re finally able to climb into bed, yet something still seems to be missing? Call your parents, rant to them. Let them know what’s going on in your life, so that they may remind you that you’re never alone. They miss you so much that they’ll even love listening to you rant, they may tell you that your solution is an easy one and to move back home, but just hearing your family’s voice makes everything better.
It’s so easy to get caught up with campus life that you’ll start to make yourself believe that it would be way simpler to just wait until fall break to fill your parents in on your life, but don’t wait. Tell them about the amazing friends you’ve made, about the food that doesn’t compare to home cooking, and about the classes that make you wonder where all the years went. Use that 10-minute walk in between classes as an opportunity to make your mom’s day, plus this time, she won’t be able to talk your ear off because you “Really do have to go because class is, like, right now.”
