Would You Rather Know Everything About Your Parents Or Have Them Remain Mysterious?

I last saw both my parents when I was six, so I'd like to know anything and everything about them. They're a mystery to me.

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I think I know a little too much about my parents as it is. It's nice being close to my mother, but she tells me too much, and I just don't want to know. Then, she asks me for opinions about my father and other matters that I just don't feel comfortable discussing at all. In a way, I wish I didn't know as much as I do. It's very confusing and it has changed my relationship with both parents in a way that I'm not happy with.

I know my father has so many things he probably hasn't even told me mother. But the position he was put in trying to take care of his family and get them out of Iraq at a young age made him the man that he is today - and I respect him probably more than I respect anyone else. I don't know everything he's gone through, and it some respects, it is none of my business, father or not.

My mother on the other hand, is funny about how she shares things, because the stories she shares are random, but if I have a question about her childhood or her life I know I can ask her.

Either way, my parents and I have a good enough bond as it is.

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I don't think we know "everything" about anyone, no matter how close we are to them. It's an impossible notion.

But... I'm very close to both my parents, and I know a lot about them and their lives. And they know a lot about mine. We've learned from each other, as well as about each other.

And I'm grateful for that, and wouldn't have it any other way.

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I think there are some things better left unknown. I once heard my father say to my mother in the midst of an argument that she favored my sister over me. My mother didn't deny it. I wish I hadn't heard that. I have a great relationship with both of my parents, but that comment is still a little cloud over my head sometimes.