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It's not financially feasible for young people to move out of their parents' homes just to be on their own any more. Nevertheless, some parents panic at the idea of a son or daughter just staying at home...
In February, a 28-year-old male resident of his parents' home got into a quarrel with his 57-year-old mother. The subject of their disagreement was not reported, but the mother called a neighbor and said "Help."
The 28-year-old...no longer a boy, not yet a man either, a guy...was babbling on about a dream he'd had. What his mother was saying in reply, he didn't say. The guy, Benjamin Sly, doesn't seem to have had a job. The mother might have been telling him to look for one.
It would have been too far behind the times for her to have been suggesting that he get his hair cut, although it hung down over his eyes, or shave the small vague patches of facial hair sprouting fungus-like along his mandible. He looked as much of a mess as boys my age did when we were in high school. In his official mugshot he looked half asleep.
Benjamin said he "finally just snapped." He knocked his mother down and stomped on her. His brother came home, found their mother lying on the kitchen floor, and thought she ought to go to a hospital. In the hospital the mother died.
Meanwhile Benjamin had slammed the door in the neighbor's face, then chased the neighbor down and beaten and choked her. The neighbor collapsed. Benjamin left her lying on the cold ground and went back inside, and the neighbor also went inside and called the police.
Benjamin confessed. Sometimes the impulsiveness that makes children genuinely unable to control urges to vent their feelings persists up to age 25, even beyond, but our Benjamin was not just an excitable boy. He beat his mother to death, and tried to beat the neighbor to death, because...they made him feel like a child.
Seriously?
Attention twenty-somethings: Although it's not unreasonable that people share homes with their own parents and/or adult offspring rather than with strangers, and it's not unusual any more that both generations in many families need the money they save that way, it is unreasonable to expect that, while you're lying around your parents' house, blathering about your dreams in the middle of the day, you will not feel like a child. Because you're jollywell acting like one, that's why. Deal with it. If you live with your parents until you inherit the property in your late fifties, not only they, not only their generation, but very likely people your age as well, will still be thinking of you as a "son of." Your father is Mr. Sly (or whatever your name is) of Sly Farm, and you're His Son. People who like you will give you a chance to show that you pull your weight in the family business. Most people will not.
Don't like it? Maybe you've already done the college thing and all it's got you is in debt, which is another cause of stress for your parents? Well...if you were one of The Nephews, who don't need this mini-sermon, you could just consider that father, or uncle, as the case may be. The Navy will take just about anybody these days.
Though not Benjamin Sly.
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