Appreciate your parents
Sometimes we need small reminders in life to come to some realisations.
Today I would like to remind those around me to appreciate your parents, if you are lucky enough to still have them around.
Often finding myself being guilty of this, it can be so easy to take the things they do for us/have done for us all our lives for granted.
Most parents I know have gone the extra mile to assure that their children have good lives.
If you think about it, parenting is a job on its own really; constantly worrying whether your child is safe, fed, warm … and this does not change once we are grown up.
They invest time, money and support into our lives without expecting any of it back.
They help us clean up our messes and take the time to teach us life lessons.
Even when that sometimes becomes a little too much for us, we should just appreciate that we have someone who always has our backs.
I encourage giving your parents a hug, or the occasional box of chocolates, just to remind them that you appreciate them.
Even if you are 40 and have been independent for a long time, their love and care remains eternally.
Appreciating them is what makes their efforts worth it.TB
