Daily Prompt: Pick a contentious issue about which you care deeply — it could be the same-sex marriage debate, or just a disagreement you’re having with a friend. Write a post defending the opposite position, and then reflect on what it was like to do that.

I wasn’t going to respond to this prompt today. I was planning on trying a different prompt. Honestly, I don’t like to debate on any sort of issue. People have their own opinions and I tend to like to keep my opinions to myself. I don’t like offending people and I certainly don’t want a bunch angry or arguable comments.

So I’m going to choose an issue that most people happen to agree on. Children at a young age should not be spoiled and parents should be give in so easily. 

Do you agree?

My mom often calls me spoiled but she has no clue what spoiled children are. She often says that she spoils me for not kicking me out when I was 18, for not making me get a job while I was in college. I often find myself wondering whether she was trying to make me into a replica of herself.

We’ve got into so many one-sided argument because of that.

Sure I’d gone through most of my undergraduate career without working but that wasn’t my fault. If someone would hire me, I would’ve jumped on it and moved out of the house already.

At least I’d never stoop so low as to begged to buy anything. Now, that’s spoiled behavior.

Hey, if you get it, that’s fine. If you don’t, that’s fine too. I’ll just get it later when I have money. My cousin, on the other hand, now that’s spoiled. He get everything he wants. I am absolutely not jealous of that.

His parents are weak, that’s what was and is happening.

When he was little, he’d throw a tantrum in the supermarket, literally I’ve seen it, until his mom got him what he wanted. I hated that scene. I couldn’t do anything about it, not with his mom watching but to avoid embarrassment, she surrendered in seconds.

His dad, just a farmer in China, is willing to throw away all his money when his son told him he wanted to go to college in the U.S. You have no idea how many hours-long phone calls of them trying to convince my mom to let him come.  We often wonder what happened in 2012 when both of us begged him to come and he wouldn’t. What’s changed in 2014?

It’s not just him. When I taught ESL, most of my students wore $100, $200 shoes and all their techno gadgets are Apple. Do you know how expensive those things are? My mom would kill me if I spent more than $40 on a pair of shoes or even more than $700 on a laptop.

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