“There are the parents who suffer deeply and genuinely, because their son (or daughter) does not love them, and who, simultaneously, ignore, oppose or attempt to destroy everything they know of their son’s convictions, values and goals, never thinking of a connection between these two facts, never making an attempt to understand their son. The world they never made and dare not challenge, has told them that children love parents automatically.” (via niki)

Do any of you relate to this? Do you agree? Do you disagree? I feel sometimes that the world that I live in, is a world that my mother just doesn’t understand. I do believe however that deep down she would want to feel closer to me. But just can’t listen, or open her mind to it. I know, for sure, that there are truths about the world that she knows, that I want to hear. Things that I don’t think she would ever tell me, unless we got closer. Is she truly selfish? Does she not want to know me - truly know me? How do you get to that place with someone so set in their ways?