RE: Lost Opportunities
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Oh this is too beautiful. Your post hit a couple pf really sensitive sots for me, as I have just entered my forties and my mom is stuck, alone in her id 70s, all alone in the UK. Our circumstances are hard, but we are trying to get her back here as soon as we can. I can only imagine how horribly lonely she is.
She took herself out for a walk to a castle and a lunch of fish and chips! I', so glad she still gets out and about.
A nurse forced by an aging body to retire, she has certainly earned her retirement. I keep telling her to just pick one of her doctor suiters with a bit of a heart problem an then set herself up for life :p
It is painful to relive our stories of loss, but I am so glad you have found a way to celebrate with your lady friends. You are certainly spoilt for choice up there on the East Coast! Langoustines taste better than crayfish anyway!
It reminds me of the bitter sweet day I spent with my uncle, my mother and my closest friend, also Clare, as we scattered my fathers ashes in Simon's Town.
And then treated ourselves to the most wonderful spread of seafood. as the most delightful comfort food.
Unfortunately my previously estranged uncle from Pretoria passed away about 6 weeks after this, so I am so glad we went all out to enjoy that precious time together.
Ambitiously, I am hoping to make another paella soon! I found some saffron in my cupboard! now I just need @zakludick to finish fixing my electric frying pan :p
We tend to move too quickly through the years, when looking back one realizes time did run away a wee bit.
Well I hope that paella materializes soon and Zak isn't too busy at work keeping the wheels in motion for the home.
Having just celebrated my 40th, I look back with a huge amount of sorrow, pain and regret... for lovers and family lost and real hard, real world lessons learned. I am half way through my life and I am not nearly where I thought I would be. How do I celebrate who I have become?
Happy belated birthday, my forties were tough years, I had lost my parents by then, made me dig deeper to keep going as they had.
We never celebrate what we have become, simply get on with life, try stop every so often for a breather.
That's freaking hectic. I lost my dad when I was 38... and the reality is that my overworked and exhausted mother isn't 40 anymore....she's 75 in November. I have to prepare for that, which is going to be a huge hit. I don't know how I'll cope... really.
With Mom around you will find a way to be together for her 75th. Having lost my parents a year apart me aged 39 it was never easy, we survive somehow.
Wow. That must have been unimaginably hard. I lost my dad and my uncle a month apart, but both parents? That's hectic :(
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We learn to carry on, not prepared to dwell on the past completely, still a lot to see, which is what they want you to do.