Your parents know life without you, but you haven’t experienced life without them. Once college hits, we tend to stray away from our mother and father, or whoever you have as a guardian. They aggravate us, they scold us, lecture us, and take us to the breaking point. We’re here now, though, and we should say thank you.
Thank them for:
- Always asking where you are.
- Taking the time to call you 50 times a day.
- Asking you if you’re hungry.
- Making sure you ate today.
- Checking up on your mental and physical health.
- Telling you if you look skinnier or fatter than normal.
- Wanting to meet your significant other.
- Telling you to clean your room.
- For cleaning your room.
- Telling you to brush your teeth three times a day.
- Asking how school is going.
- Helping you, even though you don’t need any.
- Helping you especially if you need it.
- Making fun of you.
- Staying up late at night wondering where you were.
- Getting up in the morning before work to make you breakfast.
- Always getting your school supplies for you.
- Doing all the work for your science fair.
- Wiping your tushy when you were a baby.
- Asking you to come home.
- Wanting to do your laundry.
- Always invading your privacy.
- Wanting to know everything about your friends.
- Expecting you to get a job.
- Pushing for you to be greater.
- Taking you to practice.
- Putting countless hours into your hobbies.
- Spending money on pointless things we loved.
- Wanting to spend time with us, even after they had a hard day.
- Pushing you to get an education.
- Buying you that puppy.
- Making the holidays great.
- Dealing with your temper tantrums.
- Listening to your problems.
- Always standing up for you.
- Loving you.
Thank them for whatever may seem childish, absurd, annoying, or great. Thank them for always being there even when you pushed them away. Thank them for a great life, because at the end of the day, you’re still alive. Call them every day, tell them you love 'em, say how much you appreciate what they have done, and though it may seem like you’ve strayed away from them a bit, that you think about them every second of every day. Life is short and you never know when or where the last time you'd see your loved ones again could be. I love you mom and dad. Thanks for everything.
