What Did Your Parents Give You That You Didn't Ask For?

This is that time of the year, when you need to sit down and acknowledge

You may love them, you may hate them but you can't ignore what they have done for you. Being a parent to teenagers myself, I know what we as parents are doing for our children.

Similarly, I know what my parents have done to me. What they have given me over a life time so that my life becomes better than theirs.

Someone once said to me, "You have to learn to go beyond your parents expectations of you" but then I asked what do they expect out of me. And that's when dissatisfaction started because I never asked them. Everything I did for them, I thought would make them happy not to realize they were anyways happy with me. Pity me, I realize this when I have my own teenage children. And henceforth, I stopped being dissatisfied.

In fact for me, this question makes more sense "What have my parents done for me without me asking for it?" This make more sense. It builds it with gratitude. Now I am looking for good and I will find good.

What's your take?