The Similarities Between My Father Vs. Childhoods

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Have you ever encountered relatives trying to compare you with your parents? When people try to differentiate my father with me, they don’t find it as a task. Even though my father and I have comparable looks, our characteristics are quite different. Because of our divergent childhoods, our personalities are also unalike. For instance, my father spent a lot of time with his family & friends, went to a school of a previous generation, and lived in a lifetime different than mine.

The first difference of our childhoods is our social circle. My father lived in a town where all his family and friends were jointly together around him. In addition, my father used to play with his friends outside on the streets and when he went home, he would meet
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Traditionally, my father lived with his family in the country side like his parents and grandparents have done. In addition, my father’s family owned a self-sufficient farm, they did all the work themselves. My father had a lot of space to run and play with his friends, but it was kind of difficulty for him to go buy new clothes whenever he wanted to. He had very few neighbors near his family’s farm. In contrast, my childhood environment lacked all the freedom of playing outside with a lot of space to run freely. I lived in a famous city which is also very crowded, I lived in New York City. I had the freedom to go shopping every day because I was lived near a mall. The only restriction I had was the overcrowded neighborhood I lived in. The

sidewalks were always crowded, the streets were always filled with slow moving traffic. Me and my father lived in two different worlds, everything we lived through was nothing alike.

In conclusion, people who tried to compare me to my father had to study our childhoods. My childhood was amazingly great, although, my father’s childhood seemed old school and boring to millennials, I would have loved to live in farm. But I guess my father moved to America to give us a childhood he longed for. My father lived an innocent childhood unlike mine were everything is in the palm of your hand. I will never have what my father had in his childhood and it’s too late for him to enjoy what I enjoyed in my

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