Chicken Soup for the Mortal Soul
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Aug. 12, 2008
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Oh, NOW I get it...
Before I start this post, one of the things you should know is that I'm one of those kids who do not watch very many movies, and whose parents bought one of those boxes which bleep bad words out of movies.
I'm that kid who has not seen alot of the popular current movies.
And until now, that's really frustrated me.
For the longest time, I thought that it wasn't fair that everybody else got to go watch this movie, and I didn't.
It seemed to me that Mom and Dad just didn't want me to do anything fun.
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But just two days ago, I realized something.
Mom and Dad let me, and a couple of my siblings around my age, watch the first Spider-Man movie *.
I was really excited! To be able to watch an un-edited movie (well, the cursing was edited out)? Finally!
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As I watched the movie, I started to realize something. I noticed several things in it that would have bothered me, had I seen them when I was younger, but that I was able to deal with now that I was older.
Suddenly, it all made sense.
Mom and Dad didn't not let me watch movies because they didn't want me to have fun! They did it because they did not want me to see something that's too big for me!
At fourteen, I am able to handle some of the issues in the movie. But when I was younger, I wouldn't have been able to handle/understand these things!
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Now, you guys are probably saying right now, 'Duh, Nick, shouldn't you have figured this out years ago?'
My answer is: No.
It doesn't make sense when you're younger. It seems like your parents are being mean. It doesn't make sense why they always say no.
But as you get older, and more mature, things start to make sense. You get why you're not allowed to see certain things, and why you are allowed to see other things.
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Thank you, Mom and Dad, for protecting me. Though I know it would be nice to watch stuff like, 'Batman, the Dark Knight', I also know that you don't let me watch these things for a reason.
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Kids, I know it's hard when your parents don't let you do things that you want to do. But it's important to remember that your parents have a reason for what they say. Your parents do things for your own good, because they love you.
It might not make sense now.
It still might not make sense twenty years from now.
But realize that what your parents do for you is done out of their best interest for you. They do it because they love you, even though it seems unfair at the time.
~Nick
*I have seen the first Spider-Man before, but it had almost all of the bad content edited out.
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=)Sam