Dear Sofioula:

Merriam Webster’s definition of sarcasm: “the use of words that mean the opposite of what you really want to say, especially in order to insult someone, or to show irritation, or just to be funny”-

– according to this definition, I was indeed not sarcastic when I suggested that you give your parents advice, nor was I sarcastic as to the nature of advice  I suggested.

I was aware though, when I sent you the non-sarcastic post on April 12, that you will probably think I didn’t mean what I wrote, because giving advice to your parents will probably sound unreasonable to you, it being that they are your parents (parents are gods, in the mind of a young child, and a child doesn’t give advice to gods. Often a child doesn’t grow out of this impression of parents being gods).

Having read over the years what you shared about your parents, and it being that they have never been my parents, (and therefore I never looked up to them as gods), it appears to me that they really are not qualified to give you good advice. And, it appears to me, that you are better qualified to give them good advice than they are to you.

I didn’t think when I sent you the post that they will welcome or consider your advice. But you can try, maybe they will appreciate your advice, Maybe. If they don’t- don’t give them advice anymore.

It would be nice if they stopped giving you unappreciated advice.

anita