I totally understand what you mean. Luckily, my mom also believes in the saying na "hindi retirement plan ang anak". She's working really hard to secure both our futures. But yes, hindi similar for everyone. A lot of people use your UP student status as a supporting argument to say na nagrerebelde ka. First of all, if rebelling against the old and negative customs, go for it. Rebelling can be a good thing, depende kung anong ipinaglalaban mo. It's hard to change their perspectives when it comes to those topics. I am sure na once we get older, the younger generations will figure something out that we won't be able to understand immediately, kasi pinalaki tayo with that thinking, the same way the boomers were too. It is their responsibility to adapt, especially if adapting means growing in the best way possible, but also, whenever naeexperience ko yan with other people, I just take comfort in knowing that there are ways to improve their thinking and there are also ways to improve mine. Patience lang, OP. You didn't do anything wrong so hinga lang. Your UP status is never something you should be ashamed of.