How do we cope with our parents getting older?
How do we prepare ourselves emotionally with the fact one day they will die?
How do we come to terms with the looming possibility of losing them?
God & Man
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Updated 6 years ago,December 10, 2018
My grandparents adopted me.
They raised me since I was a baby.
My father is 72.
My mother is 68.
Even as a child I was already aware how old my parents were.
Since I was so attached to them, Id often worry about their well-being.
She was groaning in pain as the doctor did the routine.
I huffed,Stop hurting her!which got a laugh out of them.
20 years later and I can see time marked on my parents faces when I skype them.
I get scared shitless if my father just catches a fever or a cough or a cold.
My worrying strengthened recently when my friends father was laid to rest.
It got me fretting more than usual
How do we cope with our parents getting older?
How do we prepare ourselves emotionally with the fact one day they will die (and probably soon)?
How do we come to terms with the looming possibility of losing them?
I guess theres no simple way to answer these questions.
Right at this moment, we, too, are aging.
Our parents are growing old and so are we.
We cant really solve something as inevitable as aging.
Open up to them about how you feel.
Let them know how much you love them, both in actions and words.
Prepare yourselves, literally.What do they want when theyre proper old?
Do they want to stay at their house, with you, or at a home for the aged?
What are the arrangements when they pass away?
Forgive each other.Is there anything you want to ask forgiveness for?
Is there anything your parents did that warrants your forgiveness?
