This is my post for #freewriters 2774 prompt lifestyle choice hosted by @mariannewest
When you have kids, especially when they are small, you wonder what their lives will be like when they become adults. You have all these dreams of them in your head. The way one will take apart his new toys to see how they work, will he be an engineer or a mechanic? One will play doctor with her dolls, will she be a doctor? One who loved to fish would follow in your footsteps and be a fisherman. How one loved to argue her point, would she be a lawyer? Then, the one you worried about the most, she tells you at age 9, all she wants to be is a cocktail waitress in Fort Lauderdale, that one worried me, and even though she has made bad choices, that was not one of them.
The hardest part of being a parent is to accept their lifestyle choice. Two out of the five live a hard life, but the one thing I have to keep telling myself is, this is how they want to live. It hurts me to know how hard they have it, and I try to help when I can, but my husband does not think I should help, so I have to keep quiet about the things I do. I do not like doing this, but my heart hurts when I think of their struggles, even if it is their choice.
photo is mine