No matter the age,
I always want someone to live
“just a little longer”.
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When someone younger than me
is ill and outcome is unknown,
it always shakes me to the core.
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And, isn’t there a “law” that parents
outlive their children ?
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Somehow the universe knows who
to urge to spring a surprise, to ease
the angst, showing empathy.
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Bittersweet Week: sad, happy, surprised
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I tucked this away, just found it…
remember I didn’t want to post it ’cause
it was too “deep” thinking for me to share.
It ruins my Hard Hearted Hannah image.
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Grace
It is heart breaking to see and read about children and young people dying ~ I sure do want people around me to live longer ~
siggiofmaine
Grace,
thank you for your comment.
I often marveled when I was younger… a lot younger, how adult children, no matter how hold the parent, even 100 or more years old…needed to have the presence of that person. A man, after his elderly father died, said, “I didn’t care if he knew me or not, I had my father to talk to. Now I am an orphan.”
It is, for me, the most difficult thing, to be with friends who have a sick or dying child, or a child that has died. Now, I worry that could happen to me…not likely, but I have an adult child that is ill at the moment with a condition they can’t diagnose,…. and in true motherly fashion, I fear the worst.
Peace,