Tolerance

What to do when faced with a situation, in which, no matter how much you want to speak, you must remain silent? In this particular scenario, (hypothetically, of course.) you don’t like the way in which you mother is acting. What can you actually do? On one hand you could tell your mother how you feel about her actions. However, she may think; a) you are overreacting, or b) that it’s none of you damn business how she lives her life. With either option, she isn’t listening to how you feel, how you are handling it, how you view the situation. Sometimes there are the occasional realizations, on the mother’s behalf, that she is wrong. But for my and others these are occasions few and far between. In the end we just tolerate the instances that make us which we had no mother. Yet I wonder, are we helping those we love by staying silent, merely tolerating their existence, because we fell that our hands are tied.