Appreciate Your Parents! by Jasmina Turdieva ('24)

We birth with loud screams.

Our first worlds were daddy, mommy. 

Our moms feed us with breast, with spoons, with forks.

They were glad when they saw our first steps, first days of schools/colleges, our last days of school. 

They were happy when they saw our smiles; they were sad, when they saw our disappointments. 

They always prayed for us, and never left us.

But why when they get old, we wouldn’t do the same things as they did. 

We can’t feed them because we are too irritable.

We can’t watch how they eat by themselves because they dropped food or spilled water. 

We begin to get annoyed and become mad. 

When they can’t move fast, or can’t move by themselves we just leave them—why?

Why can’t we provide for them or pay them for their tolerance, dead nerve cells, or their sleepless nights. 

We 21st century’s children have to do the best for our parents, no matter how old they are, how bad the situation or anything else.

We have to pay them our whole lives because they’re the only people  who didn’t leave us when we were young! 

Remember this!