SECRETS BETTER OUT THAN IN????

Some of us have a question pop into our minds whenever something bad happens or we are in a tough situation. That question is “Do we tell our Parents or Not??”. Most of the time our judgment gets clouded by this question swirling around and another emotion which we feel and that emotion is Fear. The fear of getting yelled at or severely punished, but I am here to give the answer to this question.

So I’m going to recount two incidents one of which made me realise that opening up to your parents is the easiest way out of any situation, and the latter because of which I had told my parents was way easier to get out of. This happened in 8th grade, we had just received our report cards, and I had received absolutely horrible marks at that moment everything froze and I didn’t know what to do. I went home with absolute fear and the exact same question swirling around in my mind. With all that in my mind, I neither gave the report card to them nor told them received the report card. Days later they received a call from my teacher saying that I had not returned the report card and I had to show it to them and receive an absolute earful.

Then they sat me down and talked to me and told me that if I had shown it to them earlier and told them about it, it would’ve been faster and much less troublesome for all of us. That made me realise that it is better to have people around us who will stick with us till the problem has been solved rather than make a poor decision with our already clouded minds. I had gone for a global scale competition where I met so many people and made even more friends. In all of those friends, there were those who always keep their parents in the loop, and those are who were slowly opening up to their parents after learning that it is better to do so.

In the 9th grade, I had a crush on a guy. And I had written a letter to him expressing my feelings for him, thankfully my mom knew about my feelings for him, the next day I decided to give the letter to him, but what I never realized was that he would go and give the letter to the teacher!! My parents were called, they came and heard what the teacher had to say, then just laughed it off. But then they took the time to counsel me and tell me the difference between Love and Infatuation. So it has thus been answered please, tell your parents, they will have known what you’re going through and will be able to help you. Confide in them like you would a diary, as these are the people who have made you, nurtured you, and are sculpting you. So always if you are in a problem, tell your parents, and both of them will stick like glue to you till it is over. Don’t worry, sometimes secrets are meant to be kept, otherwise you have to tell them to someone, it’s Human Nature. Until Next Time………..

R. MAHIMA RAM

XI GRADE