Life comes full circle

[sonrisa]

I can remember lying awake at night as a child worried about my parents dying and wondering how I would be able to go on living without them. Now here I am, lying awake (since 4 am) unable to sleep, wondering how I'm going to be able to explain it to my child when she starts to have those same worries. I can talk through strategy in my head but can't sleep. (Right now I'm thinking of going with something like "You will be older and may have children of your own. As you love them, you will know I still love you.")

Silly me.

[shamalamadingdo]

i dont remember ever being worried about that. maybe your child won't either...i'm sorry you're antsy about this.

[sonrisa]

Sept 11, 2012 8:21:08 GMT -5 shamalamadingdo said:

i dont remember ever being worried about that.

Really? That makes me feel much better. I think I'll actually be able to go back to bed for that last hour of sleep :-)

[sake]

I still worry about how I will continue on with life after my parents die. I watched Long Island Medium the other night and sobbed just thinking about it.
But, I'm weirdly attached to my parents like that.

[shamalamadingdo]

good, sonrisa. now that i'm a grownie, i DO worry about it. but i didn't when i was a kid. night night

[Deleted]

i didn't lay awake worrying about this as a child. yours might not either. i thought about it sometimes, but only when events prompted me.

[bcv513]

To this day, that is still my biggest fear.

[saraandmichael]

I also never thought about it, save for once but that was only because of someone elses parent taking their own life. I was worried my dad was going to do the same thing.

Sorry you were worrying about this =(

[-Moe-]

i knew my parents would die eventually, but as a child i "knew" it would be when they were old (and so would I).

my nephew just started kindergarten, and the day before his parents were sent an email that one of the kids in his class had just lost his parents in an accident, so the kid may talk about it. trying to explain parents' mortality to a 5 year old is rough, i gather.

but your child could be like me. oblivious to the fact that mortality could happen when you least expect it.

there will be mushrooms, though.

[juliew]

I was more worried about my parents taking off their masks.

I would constantly look at their jawline to try to find the seam of where they put them on. Totally convinced they were aliens.

[melindafelinda]

Sept 11, 2012 10:37:12 GMT -5 juliew said:

I was more worried about my parents taking off their masks.

I would constantly look at their jawline to try to find the seam of where they put them on. Totally convinced they were aliens.

My mom tells me that I would ask her every day if she was a witch. And when she said no I would not accept it. "But mom, are you really a witch?"

Finally after years of this she sighed and said "Yes, Melinda, I'm a witch. Go play." And I cried and cried.