Ncha Kali
JF-Expert Member
- Sep 19, 2019
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Salaam JF family, let’s get into this:
WATCHING YOUR PARENTS AGE..
If you are lucky enough to still have good parents in your life, watching them age is not an easy feat.
They go from a pair of “all-knowing” infallible human beings while you’re a child, to “know-it-all” tyrants who think they know what is best for you while in your teens.
As the years progress, they eventually turn into your best friends and you wonder why your heart always held so much angst and rebellion towards their rules as you were growing up!
Suddenly time accelerates, and you find yourself needing to help your once mighty father to do the simple things like mow the grass. In the eyes of your once stoic mother you begin to see doubt and fear.
Once hardened faces slowly become softened, lined with wrinkles and wisdom. Steady hands begin to shake.
A six-pack of BEER in the fridge has been replaced by a multitude of prescription bottles on the dinner table.
Next it downs on you that, this once proud and brave couple who groomed you into a person you are today, are now facing the end of their life cycle. The one constant unknown that we are all headed for at one time or another.
Your emotions are mixed; proud, sad, scared, compassionate.
You know as well as they do, that one day, might be the day, when goodbyes can no longer be spoken in person. And that’s the scariest feeling in the world.
And meanwhile as you watch your parents grow frailer, you turn to see your kids eyes on you and realize, your fate is sealed just the same!
How do you find this? Take it to your head.
Ncha Kali.
WATCHING YOUR PARENTS AGE..
If you are lucky enough to still have good parents in your life, watching them age is not an easy feat.
They go from a pair of “all-knowing” infallible human beings while you’re a child, to “know-it-all” tyrants who think they know what is best for you while in your teens.
As the years progress, they eventually turn into your best friends and you wonder why your heart always held so much angst and rebellion towards their rules as you were growing up!
Suddenly time accelerates, and you find yourself needing to help your once mighty father to do the simple things like mow the grass. In the eyes of your once stoic mother you begin to see doubt and fear.
Once hardened faces slowly become softened, lined with wrinkles and wisdom. Steady hands begin to shake.
A six-pack of BEER in the fridge has been replaced by a multitude of prescription bottles on the dinner table.
Next it downs on you that, this once proud and brave couple who groomed you into a person you are today, are now facing the end of their life cycle. The one constant unknown that we are all headed for at one time or another.
Your emotions are mixed; proud, sad, scared, compassionate.
You know as well as they do, that one day, might be the day, when goodbyes can no longer be spoken in person. And that’s the scariest feeling in the world.
And meanwhile as you watch your parents grow frailer, you turn to see your kids eyes on you and realize, your fate is sealed just the same!
How do you find this? Take it to your head.
Ncha Kali.
