"Guidance"

Your life starts when you enter the world from your mothers womb. You cry for someone to at least hold you, so you can feel the comfort you have felt for the past 9 months. You grow older, when things are tough you turn to your only source of guidance. Your parents. Once you hit those high school years it is the friends you have made a long the way that you will ask for guidance from.

Most graduate and move on to college. Some even stay back For they can not afford college. They continue to live at home or at least get a job, move out on there own, and at the same time try to make ends meat for they are young. They do not know the world quite yet.
You eventually learn from all the mistakes you made in life as of yet. You try to be a person that your parents have always wanted you to be. Some even go out and do the things there parents wanted them to become.

Yet you also stay back hoping for one day that your life will come to you. But as you know, it is already there. You just do not know it. You put up a front for everyone to see when you know its fake. You are also hoping for someone to see the real you. And all along there is someone who is looking at you. Wishing they could touch you. To hold you. Cause once again you want some type of guidance that has been lost since you hit that puberty stage in middle school. Thinking to yourself you know every thing, and along those lines you lost your self some where in the middle of all that you were around. For you did not have the right guidance in life
You think about how you were brought up. You had great parents. Or at least what you think. It is like a life altering change when you suddenly realize. Your parents no longer guided you since puberty. You pushed them away. You question yourself, "Have I called Mom and Dad yet?" You happen to pull your phone out. You have not talked to them in a month.

‘Did they ever call?’ you think to yourself. No, You have pushed them to far. You dial home..wait for an answer. "Hello, Mom? Dad?" you speak into the phone kinda nervous right. "Sweetheart is that you? We have missed you so much." the parents reply. "Why do you not call me?" you cry into the phone. "Honey, its because we trust you. We know you will make the right decisions." your dad speaks up. "I am sorry I have pushed you away."( I know that is the reason to this answer.) "I do not understand what is going on. Why do my friends do the things they do?" yet hear you are wanting your parents guidance for you do not want to end up like one of them or all of them.

The drinking. The partying. "It is not something you can understand. Your friends may be doing this for they want there parents attention for they may have never had the attention you once did. We know you. We trust you." it is all that your parents have to say. Or hope they do.

Making the right choices in life is the hardest thing to do. For you do not want to hurt someone along the way or yourself in that matter too. You have to stand up for yourself. Stand up for what you believe in. One day you will understand why people do the things they do. It is not your fault as a parent to let your kids go off to college. It is not your fault for how they ended up. What is your fault is not having enough guidance in there life to steer them in the right direction. Ah but I could be wrong there to. You see you made the choices not your parents that is where you went wrong. Your parents want you to come to them to talk. To hold you. To you show there is warmth in their love still. In your home where you grew up under that big old oak tree standing 13 feet high maybe even higher.
You know where you stand in life. But Partying is not one of them.
By Alesha 8/6/07