The reason why I started blogging is for me to express my feelings. To let others, except my family, know what’s going on and what’s happening with my life. The feeling of having online friends giving advices and comments feels good. I appreciate them, of course. But I always ask myself, “what if I never got the chance to go online again? How am I going to express what’s inside of me?” This brought me to realization that, after all, it is still best to talk to your family, especially our Parents.
I know a lot of us are afraid or just not comfortable to talk to our family, especially our not-so-cool parents. Here are some ways I did to persuade my parents to buy me a car, kidding!
Be friends with them. I know this is so difficult but we should. We should be friends with them so they would buy us nice cars and useless stuff. Why friends? A friend listens every time we rant and talk about non sense stuff. After talking and crying like baby, they will laugh at us and we all start laughing. So treat your parents as your friends, and you will find them cool and that’s the time you ask them to buy you a car.
Always Smile. Pretend to be happy even if they won’t buy you a car. Smile as if you understand everything. Whenever you smile, your parents would feel happy. They’d ask why you are smiling and that’s the point where you can tell them what you want and instead of car, ask them to buy you chocolates and chips. Instead of frowning, as if you’re some kind of a loser, Smile and tell them what’s bothering you.
Give them a hint that you wanted to talk to them. How? Well, I always wanted to go back in the Philippines but I can’t, so I gave them a hint. Example – “hey ma, you know what, there are a lot of programmer trainee positions advertised on the internet.” Expect them to respond something like this –“Really? Ok I’ll get you the last flight tonight. “
Do not take my advice. Cross out those things I’ve just listed. Just talk to them in a nice way. I remember my father telling me that he wanted to talk to me as if we are best friends. So I thought that, maybe, they are all the same. They wanted to be friends with us just like how we wanted to be friends with them. Remember that they are still our parents, so we should respect them every time we talk.
Just talk, it won’t hurt anything.
