Why do our parents spend so much on us?

Do you know why our parents spend so much for us?

Lavish laptops, latest phones, high-end clothes, really expensive accessories, rich food, nice rooms, study spaces, grade A supplies… have you ever been deprived? (If you say NO, then you prove my point. If you say YES, just proves how you’re spoiled. hehehe)

It seems that we have it good in life. BUT do you know why our parents spend so much on us?

Well, I have a theory! And it goes like this.

“The love you give is the love you get back” have you ever heard of that quotation? In a capitalist perspective, we are actually investments of our parents! We are actually financial, emotional, psychological, physical insurance for their lives in the future. We are either the legacies they’d leave, the assurance of their retirement or their health insurance. Just like any investment that needs to be “managed” they try to “take care of us” well. Hoping that in the future their investment will pay back (not just in financial form). And even if you don’t admit it, or if your parents find it blasphemous of me, to say it, but it is true. HAHAHAHA.

Why do you think some businessmen and entrepreneurs call their ventures their “babies?” Where do you think they got that expression, where do you think they compared it from?! Of course, baby is to parents as business venture is to businessman.

Only bold parents will admit that their child is their investment. They’d always say that they expect nothing in return. BUT if so, why do they get “disappointed” in us, if they expect nothing in return? Why do they say “I don’t deserve these grades” if they expect nothing? What would someone that expects nothing deserve?

Fact is we are their “investments” and they do expect a lot. And reality is that they do deserve a lot.

But don’t take this too smugly dude, never think that they need us, sad truth is they could have easily invested in stocks than is us. Much like in any business venture we could have easily been a rejected business plan, or proposal. And much like any existing business our parents could have easily divested, retrenched or liquidated us, if they saw that we were a waste. BUT reality is, the fact that you are able to read this blog now means that you are able to read; means that you might be in college right now; means that you have a computer, or have money to go to a net shop… which means your INVESTORS continued to invest on us, even though our stock value sometimes plummet.

Our parents invested in us because there is something to invest in. They believe that we can continue to be good investments, whether they are expressive about it or not. That is why they have expectations--- they have “expected”---- even though we sometimes “disappoint.”

So don’t get cocky knowing that you’re an investment, just keep on proving that you’re worth being invested in.