It never gets any easier.
Sometimes it feels like it’s been forever. Other times, I look around my mom’s house and it feels like it happened yesterday.
I feel Guillaume, Phred and I settling into our roles as the adults of the family – doing things with our own children, making the decisions on care for Mother.
I have to admit it, and I know this will sound terrible, but when The Old Man dies, I didn’t see Mother outliving him by 10 years.
For 10 years, we’ve been on our own, but moss grows fat on a rolling stone
Don McLean “American Pie”
These thoughts about The Old Man are compounded by the fact that Mother’s next door neighbor passed away about 10 days ago as well. I’ve known this man since my parents moved into that house 45 years ago. His son and daughter were the first kids I met when we moved into that house. In a lot of was, I feel like they are family too.
It’s a normal part of growing up – that transition from being a kid to become an adult, then becoming the elders of the family yourself. So I know it’s inevitable. But it’s also one of those things in life we talk about and try to mentally prepare ourselves for. It when they day comes, no one is really ready for it.
With every passing day, I’m realizing that as adults, my parents generation didn’t have any more of an idea what they were doing than I have now. That might be the most startling realization i ever come to as adult. I feel like my parents made it look so easier. But then again, Im remembering things as I saw them through the eyes of a child. I suppose when you’re a kid, every adult like they have everything figured out.
To briefly answer today’s prompt, death – perhaps more than almost any other life event – marks the times and alters one’s perspective on life events.
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