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Last night I watched a movie named “boyhood”. It was a nice movie which was about a boy named Mason and the ups and downs of his life from his sixth till his eighteenth. By watching this movie you get to live life with him and his family. Besides having some difficulties, I loved those scenes that they spend with their parents happily. There are so common things between families despite different cultures or different backgrounds; therefore in my opinion sometimes we can learn a lot of good points from these kind of movies which we mostly miss them.

There were two scenes that I loved the most and it made me thinking. In one of the scenes there was a plumber guy who had a short conversation with Mason’s mother. The woman told him that he was smart therefore he should be at school. Probably she didn’t have any idea that how his few sentences was going to have huge impact on his life.  Few years later whiles Mason, her mom and her sister were sitting in a café, a guy came by and said to Maon's mother that while back you told me that I was smart and I had to get back to school. He told her that he took her advice and continued his education and now here he was, with a good job and he was about to get his bachelor degree. He thanked her. I am sure it’s a great moment for every body to see that they actually could have positive effect on people lives.

Human beings are social animals. Only by satisfying our own needs we wouldn’t be happy. The satisfaction that people get through helping others is something unique therefore couldn’t be replaced by any other achievement; and that is what a human being means.

The next scene was when the little Mason who now was a young 18 years old boy was packing his stuff to go to college.  Suddenly Mason’s mother burst into cry and in reply to her son that asked what was the matter. She told that I knew this day would come but I didn’t know that you would be so happy.  Of course that was not the point; she got upset because she couldn’t believe that her kids were leaving her. The scene brought tears into my eyes too because I thought one day I would have the same feeling when my kids leave me.

She said to Mason that next time you are going to come to my funeral. Mason told her mother that she was jumping ahead like forty years then she said that she thought there would be more. While adults are struggling to make living for their kids, sometimes they probably lose some important moments that are unrepeatable. So we must remember to value every moment of being with our kids to play with them, to sing with them, to read stories for them, to spend time with them, sometimes just to listen to them and etc. then we will never have any regret of those days.  

Although parents always want the best for their kids but it would be one of the hard times for them because they don’t want to lose them. We haven’t realized the time that passed so fast. I read somewhere that when your baby is born look at her/his back you would see two small wings. As they grow older those wings will become larger and one day they are going to fly from your nest to build their own nest. So never think that you are going to have them forever, and that's life.