hanging out with mom

my mom is of an older generation.  probably about one generation older than other parents of my age group.  she like all parents are overly annoying protective.  she like taiwanese moms are 囉嗦.   she's a typical caring mother.  the only X factor about my mom is that she has diva syndrome.  not your typical diva esque mother that wants to be pretty and wants attention.  she really is a diva.  so with all those things combined, it makes for a slight nuance of upbringing.  maybe you want to attribute the diva in me due to her.  regardless, since my mom has been less on my case as i've gotten older, and actually more supportive of what i choose to do in my life.  the age/experience and helpless parenting equilibrium has finally hit, it's given me more comfort to actually spend more time with my mom.

my mom has this need to treat me like a child.  like all mothers.  i'll never leave the title of her baby son.   and she feels the need to teach me the outdated life lessons of 1980-1990.  sit up straight.  work hard.  go to harvard.  don't chew with your mouth open.  these rules supersede any real topic of conversation we might be having as she stops, gets distracted to only teach me as to what is right and wrong in the world.  which is it is very difficult for her to stay focused and for our conversations to really develop.  her principles and understandings of the world are still stuck in an age before the internet.  which every word that she's ever said to me, every proverb, every idiom, i've remembered them all.  and now i just spew them all back out at her.  cuz in her older age, she has forgotten her own rules.  (rules which also aren't governed by law, but rather how she feels that day).  always an excuse for everything.

anyways, i acknowledge her outdated ways because they are in no means wrong.  in fact they are all still the right ways to live.  but in todays world we need to modify the wording, modify the usage of these principles.  take that hardwork to the next level.  take the idea of honesty and apply to the internet age.  take the idea of professionalism and mesh it with the vibrance of youth.  this essential micro example is how certain big businesses have been able to capitalize on bridging the gap into the next century and even culturally for a successful business.

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