True independence

Over the weekend, I learnt what true independence meant.

I have friends who got married and continue to stay under their parents' roof.
Their parents poke their nose into the young couple's life and basically irritates the young couple. As you know, parents will impose their view on how many children to have (usually as many as possible), when to have them (usually the sooner the better) and what to eat to stay healthy (usually that's what they like to eat now as older people - stupid wholemeal bread, quaker oats and other tasteless shit).

My friend would also complain that they have no privacy.

I think my friend failed history in secondary school. If not, he wouldn't land himself in such a situation today. Maybe he fell asleep when we learnt about the British and Japanese Occupation.

Some people have tyrannical parents, some benevolent parents.
But regardless of whether we are ruled by the Japanese or the British, you have no say.
Only upon independence are we free from our colonial masters.
That's what history taught me.