“Then we have the other side of the table. This is where we have those that push their ideas off on their children, then they decide to take another path. Some parents at this point feel betrayed. They feel as though they wasted an abundance of money, time and effort in getting them to the point they are at, to just turn away and do something else. I am sorry to say, but this is unjust. Our children are separate beings, and we sometimes seem to forget this fact. We don’t have the right to take it personally when they do not tread the path that we set for them, rather they find their own paths. Most of us did not turn out exactly the way our parents originally pictured, and for them to have forced that on us would have been wrong on their part. It is just as wrong when we try to do it to our children or feel betrayed when they choose something else.”
-Abu Abdillah Abdul Lateef
