A Self Realization.

"As you grow older you'll realize that you are almost exactly like your parents, as much as you would like to deny it."

I've come to the stunning realization that this is true. I find myself doing the same things that my parents do, having the same expectations of people that I live with as my parents did with me, having the same type of thoughts they would have, and thinking/saying the same things that my parents have said to me to my friends.

For example, I'd see my roommates sitting inside on a beautiful day, and I'd think to myself, "Turn that damn tv off and go outside and enjoy this day." A line that I always get from my parents.

It's was a little weird at first. I'd catch myself doing it, then stop and try to think of something completely different so I wouldnt be acting like them. But now I just let it happen and laugh to myself, mosly in utter shock that people are right about that quote. I find myself being more and more like my dad than my mom, which used to bother me since he's so anal about things. But now I realize that he's only like that because he wants things to be done very well the first time, as an ex-Marine would. Things were done in a certain way and if it wasnt done in that way, we would have to re-do it until it was. I have to say his philosophy has grown on me quite a bit this year, and it couldn't have come at a better time.