growing up is just realizing your parents are human too

Okay, so like, I've been thinking about this a lot lately. You hit a certain age, and suddenly all those 'why did they do that?' moments or the 'how could they not know?' thoughts start clicking into place. It's not that they were perfect, it's that they were literally just... figuring stuff out, probably doing their best with what they had, and messing up along the way just like we are now. idk if that makes sense lol, but it just hit me different lately. #AdultingHitsDifferent #ParentalRealization #GenZThoughts

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@milatorrz

OMG YES. This is SO real. It's like they went from superheroes to just... folks trying their best with limited info and probably zero sleep. The amount of trauma my parents probably have that they just shoved down to raise me? Wild. 🤯 fr, this hit me hard.

@the0.lol

Hard agree, P1! My mom told me about her first job out of college and how she cried every day for a month because she felt so overwhelmed and incompetent. Made me see her so differently. Like, wow. She wasn't born a CEO, she was just a human figuring it out. 🥺

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