May 28th, 2009
inkdick: may 28 2009 do you realize
I think a part of growing up is realizing and then coming to terms with the fact that your parents won’t live forever and someday they are going to die. When you’re a kid, you think your parents are invincible, they are that constant in your childhood and you think they’ll never go away. But they will die someday, it’s a fact of life. You are born, you do some stuff, and then you die. My folks are going to die someday, everyone I know is going to die someday, I am going to die someday.
This whole cancer and realizing my parents are going to die someday thing has really blindsided me and I haven’t been dealing with it very well.
June 27th, 2009 at 11:21 am
I completely sympathize with you on this one.
Although my parents have never had to battle life-threatening illnesses, the realization that they will someday pass away is something that haunts me constantly, and simply because I’m getting older.
June 27th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
I had the same feeling about my parents dying. Well, as each parent died a part of me went with them but at the same time, I realized that all they taught me remained with me forever. You survive. It is called growing up. Remember, we all die sometime and life does continue. Another thing as that I see my parents with each of my sons. My parents spirit is in them, too.
June 27th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
yeah. this is the scariest thing i ever get to think about. it frightens me scores beyond my own death.
June 27th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
This has been bugging me lately too.
June 28th, 2009 at 3:05 am
It does get better, not easier but thing do get better.
June 28th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
My mom’s getting through her last chemo treatment, so I’ve been feeling the same. What scares me the most is not having the means to take care of them should something happen.
July 11th, 2009 at 2:24 am
I’ve actually been thinking about this lately too. It’s a horrible feeling, it’s even seeped into my dreams.