FIVE COMPLAINTS PARENTS NEVER GET TIRED OF MAKING

(Especially if you’re brown)

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1.     Number laya kar puttar!

Now, this is something that never ends. You score 60%, it obviously isn’t good. They ask you to score 70%. You score 70%, they ask you to score 80% and so on. BUT. Even if it’s 99.9% that you score, “ek number kahan kat gaya beta?”

There’s just no pleasing them!

Excuse: “We just want to see you get better and better”

2.     Bade ho jao.

Whether it’s Doraemon that you’re watching or that comic book you’re reading or maybe you’re just sitting and acting all goofy, you must have to listen to this one dialogue. And no, it’s not necessary that whatever it is that you’re doing is bothering them in any way, but it is.

Excuse: “We want to see you grow as a person”

3.     Bachche ho, bachche banke raho.

Okay, someone PLEASE tell me what category I fall into- the child or the adult?!

For the last 19 years of my existence, I haven’t been able to figure out what it is that I am to my parents. One moment, they expect me to act like a kid and the very next, they want me to be old and mature enough to be able to counsel a married couple.

Excuse: “Beta, humare liye aap humesha humare bachche hi rahoge”

4.     Badtameez kahin ka!

You might just be putting your point across, but NO! Apparently, tum zubaan chala rahe ho!

And of course, if they’re putting their point across, they’re just putting their point across J (Even if the ‘point’ is a jhaadoo or a chappal)

Excuse: “We’re grooming you as a person”

5.     TV mat dekh/Internet pe mat baith/Phone pe baat mat kar/Party pe mat ja

You might be done with each and every ounce of your homework, revision, test studies, extra reading affairs, B.Tech entrance preparation, MBA preparation, PhD thesis, senator speech, but NO! Don’t do it! They would find SOMETHING that you haven’t done yet, be it physical exercise, cleaning up your room, or arranging your library. And if you’ve been the ideal kid to have done it all, let me burst your bubble, there would STILL be something that’s missing. Your shaadi’s preparations, maybe!

Excuse: “You’re wasting your time. You should be utilizing it, doing something productive”

Soo..well. Whatever it is that you do, they would always find a loophole or a counter argument. Always.:P

But despite that, they really love us. Like really. J

(^Mother calling. Kbye.)

DISCLAIMER: This post might contain what-might-seem-offensive contents, but none whatsoever was intended.
Aaand I love my parents. Just sayin' :P