Being an adult and living with parents: Who teaches us?
You have just turned twenty-seven years old. You have been working full -time for six years, with work that lasts you between a year and a half and two years and that you always end up leaving for “a little better” offers. Let’s not be fooled: despite being better, no exceeds 1,300 euros a month. From the age of twenty-one to twenty-five you shared a flat with your friends, who have now moved to live with their partners, which forced you to return home your parents because, obviously, with a salary like you have you can’t pay a rent and, at the age you have, you no longer want to share a flat as a college student. Returning home Parents can be fine at certain times: it allows you to save you, the tasks of the house are much more distributed, there are always always good food in the fridge and always, always, always (even when you do not want) you have company.
More than once you have thought if, maybe, leaving far away for a season is the best, so the “and yes” that press us so many occasions when we approach the thirty. When you decide to take the step, your parents hold you with questions: “Do you mean?”, “What will you do, so far?”, “Have you thought about it well?”, “And what will you live?”, “Why do you need to go so far, to organize your life?”, “What are you not well here, here, with us?”. Each question is a sharp knife that punches you and nails to different parts of the body. Each question is a stripe that shakes the loose rope where you walk and, at any time, can drop you. “I am twenty-seven years old, why not leave me alone with my p *** Life?”, Would you like to call them, but they will have to make some more shredding before you dare to do it.
This is a shit situation and however, how many of us have we did not live it more or less close? Although only twenty, thirty or forty years ago, it was strange to live at home their parents after 25, it is now a regular scene as a result of an economic crisis and housing that shakes the whole society. Especially the youth, yes, however, how they manage, parents, having to live with their children already adults and, therefore, indomitable? How do parents manage that the future they had thought and dreamed of for their children look more and more diffused and inaccessible? How do parents manage, the frustration of not being able to tell children what to do? To just give the advice, to accompany as well as they can, why even if they disagree with their children, they have every right to do whatever they want?
Ramon Madaulafather of three older daughters, has experienced this situation closely. “They always tell you that adolescence is the worst, but no one warns you that if children live at home when they are already adults, it is a really difficult stage. What do you have to say, to a person twenty-one?” As a result of this difficulty of coexistence and communication Madaula has created Loopa show far removed from self -fiction, but it does drink from some personal experience. It is a text that rides between comedy and drama that interprets himself next to the Júlia Genís under the direction of Mònica Bofill. A work that manages to accurately and without moral judgments, the current context, which will shudder and realize that at the same time, parents and children can make the same mistakes and, above all, that no one has taught us to live together when we are already adults.
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