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Their main goal is to open as much number of "doors" as possible for our future, to make sure we won't have any economic problems or job issues. Yet, I noticed they don't realize they're sacrificing our social lives, our dreams, all the things what we want to do.. I was always being told that school came before friends, that I should only hang out with smart person, that grades were more important than social life since you can start it over anytime and those kinds of crap. At times, I wonder if parents do it because they want to steal our life, since theirs wasn't as good as ours, since they don't as much oportunities(sp?) as we do.

On the other side, when I look at what I can do now, I'm quite glad to have recieved the education my parents gave me. Of course, there's things I regret, but I remain enough positive.

There's a reason to everything, after all.

I observed a little bit closer my parents to notice that it is really difficult to get a good job without a diplome, speaking that well either French or English [I live in Quebec, so French is the main language] and have a hard past on your shoulders (povrety, lack of care from parents, hunger, etc.). I guess their engraved in their minds that their children absolutely not go through what they did or someone else did. Or is it because they grew up admiring a rich and happy person when they couldn't become like him / her?

I do understand that you're trying to let out. It's just that I learned efforts has an important part in a life. If you don't try, how can you know you can do it or not?