Common phrase from the young "it's my life, I have a right to live it as I want".
Really? What a selfish lie! Nothing of the sort is true.
Certainly we each have free will to make our choices. In fact, we have a responsibility to decide the course of our life. But the notion that" I can do whatever I want with MY life" is horribly wrong. No man is an island. No one life is independent. Every one of us make decisions that affect many people around us significantly.
What parent has not suffered greatly due to the teenagers "demand to lead their own life"? Parents care. They are always there to pick up the pieces of failure. Parents often invest their hard earned retirement to cover their children's refusal to listen to wisdom.
Children often suffer at the hands of parents. Job change, career, personal ambition, all these have dramatic affects on children. It is incredibly selfish for a parent to "follow their own dream" at the expense of their children.
A young person takes up smoking. 30 years later gets cancer. He turns to government assistance, or family resources to cure it. The need to have insurance itself is due to constant selfish actions of a few. The nation as a whole suffers at the hand of the one saying "it's my life, I can do what I want".
Well no you can't. You would only have that right IF you never returned to society when things go bad. You would have to live with no friends, no coworkers, no family, no outside reliance on healthcare or funds. Be an island and sure... Its your life. Live in society and no, it's not only your life.
Everything you do affects all those around you, even those you don't think would be affected. They care. You are loved, so you have a responsibility to those who love you. It's not your life, it's theirs also.
No man is an island.
