Friday, September 26, 2008

Don't Leave Home

No one will mention it to your face, but continuing to live with your parents deep into your twenties is shameful. Certainly, one can see the allure of treating the kind souls who raised you like a bed and breakfast with laundry service, but have you not a shred of pride? Are you oblivious to the economic strain you put on them? Do you care nothing about their retirement planning? Are you so interested only in yourself that you will ignore the fact that they haven't got that much time left. Do they not have the right to enjoy it? Giving birth to you was not supposed to be a lifetime commitment of service. They are under no obligation to keep this up. You should be contrite and gracious. Instead, you play video games in the living room, leave beer cans on most flat surfaces, and never replace refrigerator staples. No one would blame them for smothering you in your sleep.

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