Went to a funeral today. Do you know what the hardest part of this was, it was knowing that the mother of the person who pasted away buried her last child. She was 99 and she has outlived all three of her grown children. As a mother that has to be the hardest thing she has to do. We as mothers do not plan to out live our children and we take for fact that we will not outlive them. Sometimes we are wrong. As a parent we expect to raise our children, hope to have grandchildren and enjoy old age. Burying a loved one is hard, burying a child is the hardest thing I can only imagine. The pain is not something we can say we understand because we can't until we experience it of course.
The one thing that makes me wonder is the generation before the baby boomers are living to a grand old age and yet generations after that are not. Very few people live to a grand age and enjoy life. What is wrong with this picture, what are we doing to kill ourselves early so that our parents are burying us before we bury them. We need to take a good look through history to find the key to a healthy life and not have to face the pain of burying our own children first.
Does anyone care?
Laura
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