Parents: you can't live with them and you can't live without them. As annoying as they can be, at the end of the day, you still love them. My parents can get under my skin so easily, but I know if I didn't have them, I probably would not know how to do anything. My parents have taught me so many life lessons, and even if I didn't want to listen to them at the time, I knew that they were right.
When you're younger, your parents were seen as the most embarrassing people. You didn't want anything to do with them and you wanted them to drop you off a block away from school so that you could look cooler. I've realized that once you hit college, you wonder where your parents are when you need them. Suddenly, you are overwhelmed with responsibility, and all you want to do is crawl into bed and have your parents deal with it. Parents are the ones that make all your appointments, and I sure took that for granted. Now, when I have to any sort of appointment, I wait it out for as long as possible and think, "Oh it's fine, I'd rather die in my bed than go to doctor anyways." You don't realize how much your parents do for you until you start having to do those things for yourself.
Parents will take any chance that they can get to give you a life lesson. Whether it be when you're in your room trying to relax, or when you just don't want to talk to your parents, they don't care, they will still lay reality on you. Even though my dad thinks I don't listen to him when he is trying to teach me something, I am! Those words were not wasted (well, at least most of them weren't). In all honesty, listen to your parents when they have something to say because they are usually right, so don't try and be a smart-ass. We don't know anything about life yet and they do, so let them nag you every once in a while.
Even though I feel like my parents are out to get me sometimes, I know deep, deep, deep down that they are actually doing what's best for me. Sometimes, however, you have to let them know that you are growing up and you have to make your own mistakes in order to learn. My parents have given me so much and have let me have responsibilities, but they knew when to give me those responsibilities too. Even if they don't seem to know what they're doing, they do. So guys, don't take your parents for granted, because they are actually super cool (even if they don't seem like it), and before you know it you're going to have to be making appointments for yourself (cringes).
