I just got an email from a friend who lives in Europe and is celebrating his father’s 75th birthday. it just got me to thinking about how fortunate he is to have his parents still, as he is in his early forties.
I lost both my parents in one year. My mom died suddenly from a heart attack in her sleep and me dad died nine months to the day from primary brain cancer…I hadn’t thought about that period in my life in some time now. Don’t get me wrong, I think of my parents almost daily (I have their photos all over my house) but I hadn’t thought of their actual deaths in some time. It is such a heartache even now… close to eight years later.
My twenty four year old niece was feeling sorry for herself because she had such a “lame” New Years Eve last year. Her plans got cancelled last minute and she spent New Year’s Eve 2007 in bed with her parents watching the ball rise in New York’s Times Square on the teley.
“Isn’t that pathetic?” She exclaimed.
I told her this:
“One day when you are older and your parents are no longer with you, you will look back on that New Years Eve that you spent with them as one of the most precious memories of your adult life…” and she got it.
It always touches me, how everyone is almost hushed into reverent sadness when they hear that a person has lost their mother…
Anyone with living Parents? I imagine most of the Myspace folks are younger and thus most have living parents… but life is life… some may not… Share please!!
I am now 46, and I still view the day when my father died suddenly of a clot/brain-stem hemorrhage as the most horrifying day of my life. I was 28 at that time and he was only 52. At 28, I was just coming around to greater appreciation of him when he died so suddenly…I still feel very sad about his sudden death…and I suppose parents are taken very much for granted by their offspring…I was guilty of it, and it all goes around…because now my daughter does it to me! (She’s 15, and she KNOWS everything–except that her parents will not live forever) I was at a show, some years ago, where Lynne sang a special song for her mother, it was a Beatle’s song. I was very moved by that.