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Mar 2016
INDEPENDENCE
In black families, as products(children) of our parents we are allowed to be under their wing until whenever we are "ready" to fly on our own. By that, there is no time limit, it depends on so many things but nonetheless it could take you 21 years...35 years...sometimes it may never come to pass. Independence is something that never used to bother, we were fine with dependence and so were our parents. In this new age independence seems to be what everyone is aiming for and and such you hear words like "You can't stay with your parents at this age" "You need to get your life together" "We not always going to be there". I don't blame those who crave and/or achieve it, I blame the society and r/evolution which are disguised as"growth". We have now succumbed to the pressures that are put unto us by comparison and therefore feel the abrupt need to fly away. Who said our parents cannot take care of us our whole lives? They are our parents we are their responsibility, it is never gonna change it shouldn't change. But then again, "times have changed"
#Independence #Culture #Black
Khomotso Josie Manaka
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Khomotso Josie Manaka  Johannesburg,South Africa
(Johannesburg,South Africa)   
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