Choices

It's hard when you really want to do something, but your parents will not allow you to. For my 18th birthday in a week, I want to get my nose pierced. However, my mom is very against it. I guess I understand her hesitation, but I was not expecting to be forbidden to make this choice. I think it's interesting how there really is a different mindset between teens our age and our parents. It really is a generational gap. My argument was that it is my body, and as an adult, I should be able to do to it what I please. She countered with the whole "my house, my rules" routine. This demonstrates the knowledge issue of whether or not you should do something knowing that there will be consequences because someone else is against it. This is one issue I have been thinking about lately. I've more been trying to place myself in my mom's shoes, just trying to understand her strong opposition to a nose piercing. The subject of the conflict really isn't the point here. What I'm trying to get across is how we have the decision to choose what we want to do or to defy our elders and do what we think we have the right to. A very interesting topic I think.