Parents puzzle when teenage goals pursued at the outset are resisted at the end
青少年们一开始追逐着目标,到最后却抵制目标,每当这个时候家长就会感到很困惑
Post published by Carl E Pickhardt Ph.D. on May 11, 2015 in Surviving (Your Child's) Adolescence
"If you want me to be more independent, just give me more support."
“如果你想让我更加独立,那么就给我更多支持。”
There is loss from finishing what one is reluctant to let go.
完成意味着失去,而失去的这部分正是他最不愿意失去的。
Perhaps the young person doesn’t want a peak high school or college social experience to be over (completion regret.) Gone are the best years of one’s life. Or there is fear about coping with what comes after (next step anxiety.)
也许是青少年不想让最辉煌的高中时代或大学炫目的社交经历成为历史(结束的遗憾)。人生中最美好的时光即将成为过去。又或者接下来要应对的事情让人害怕。
One is no longer a student – a person in a state of preparation -- and now is expected to function as a self-supporting individual. Independence costs a lot of responsibility.
自己不再是一个学生——处在准备阶段的人——并且现在就要承担经济独立的责任了。独立的代价就是承担很多的责任。
Either way the hardships of life set in. Growing up requires giving up; while ongoing change keeps creating more challenging adjustments as people age.
不管怎样都要开始艰难的生活;成长需要放弃;同时不断的变化也会创造更多的挑战以适应年龄的变化。
The question in each case is: “Do I really want an important life goal when I know achieving it will also cost me? There is what I have to give up and in what I must pay when I get there.”
这些案例中的问题是:“当我知道达到这个目标将会付出一些代价时,我真的还会想要一个很重要的生活目标吗?如果我想要实现目标就必须放弃一些东西,就必须寄存一些东西。”
To some degree, goals are expensive because choosing is losing – you have to give something up to go after what you want, and you get some of what you don’t want in the process.
在一定程度上,目标是很昂贵的,因为选择就是失去——为了你所追求的东西你必须而选择放弃一些事物,并且在这个过程中你还会得到一些你不想要的东西。
Whether goals are about independence, self-restraint, graduation, or constant love, for example, the closer these goals get to realization, the more compromising they can appear -- a mix of what is desirable and what is not.
不管目标是关于独立、自我克制、毕业还是永恒的爱,比如,意识到目标距离越近,就越会表现得妥协——这是一种既渴望又不想的混合感觉。