Laying on your side, kicking, spinning, swaying your arms wildly all over the place, and screaming at the top of your lungs, “NOOOOooooo, I don‘t want to “!!!! This was an action taken well past toddler age simply because you didn’t get your way. Acting a bit extreme would be an understatement. Throwing things, breaking things, kicking everything in your path, yelling, and mumbling while swearing under your breath. Yelling I hate you, I wish I were never born, while screaming you wish to leave here and never come back. This went on well into your teens, all because you didn’t get your way. Acting a bit extreme would be an understatement. Punching walls, punching those younger and weaker, breaking things thrown across the room. Making violent threats to your parents and siblings, putting your hands on the girl/boyfriend you profess to love. All because you didn’t get your way. Acting a bit extreme would be an understatement. You finally have a license to drive and a brand new outlet to unleash your anger. God forbid anyone dares get in front of you. You slam your hands on the steering wheel screaming profanities at an individual simply changing lanes. You slam your right foot to the floor spinning your back tires and put your vehicle into a small fishtail action, nearly crashing into the vehicle beside you to get around and ahead of the vehicle that just got in front of you. Reaching speeds of nearly 80 miles per hour ignoring the posted speed limits of 40 miles per hour. No sooner than you get in front of them you come to a traffic light that is red and have to slam on your brakes and slide to a stop. You broke several laws and nearly caused several automobile crashes, but you are in front once again. Acting a bit extreme would be an understatement. You are a parent now, with a beautiful child of your own. Just like the parents he has observed screaming, cursing, throwing, and breaking things he also feels it is what he should do when he doesn’t get his way. You disagree angrily slapping him across his barely 5-year-old face as if he were 35. Grabbing his arm, holding him at eye level to yourself while screaming in his hysterically crying face that he does what you tell him to do not what you do. Then you sling him onto the sofa with a finger in his face demanding he shut up before you give him a reason to cry. Acting a bit extreme would be an understatement. I see people just like you every day, and I wonder if ever and at what point in your life will you finally grow up. We have all heard the old saying “Growing pains”. That pain is not a physical pain that you experience while growing up. That pain is a physical, financial, and emotional pain that you cause so many others who are connected to you in any way. It’s time to stop sucking your thumb, blaming everyone else, and acting like you are owed some special treatment or reward, get off your pathetic backside and grow up.
Simply my Thoughts
Dean Butler
