That title can be changed if it offends.
If there is one regret I have it is that I didn't love my parents enough when they were alive.
Ive had old high school friends say to me "Your parents were one of a kind. I always felt welcome at your house." I lucked out in that regard. My parents were very loving. Very kind. Very humble and very social. They were Christians who walked the talk.
But I took them for granted. I didn't show enough respect. I was a spoilt brat teenager. Not financially but emotionally. My parents were always there if I needed them. My father was president of a local charity for 20 years, visited the sick in Hospital after Church on Sunday. he really had an instinct for helping the poor. Yet he didn't have the language of intellectual Christians. he didn't quote the Gospel. he lived the Gospel! My mother was a dutiful wife and mother. A shame she didn't catch the wave of feminism. because she might have learnt more assertiveness. Respect she deserved.
It makes me wonder how I will feel if or when my siblings or partner pass on. Will I have the same amount of regret? here's praying I don't!
If there is one regret I have it is that I didn't love my parents enough when they were alive.
Ive had old high school friends say to me "Your parents were one of a kind. I always felt welcome at your house." I lucked out in that regard. My parents were very loving. Very kind. Very humble and very social. They were Christians who walked the talk.
But I took them for granted. I didn't show enough respect. I was a spoilt brat teenager. Not financially but emotionally. My parents were always there if I needed them. My father was president of a local charity for 20 years, visited the sick in Hospital after Church on Sunday. he really had an instinct for helping the poor. Yet he didn't have the language of intellectual Christians. he didn't quote the Gospel. he lived the Gospel! My mother was a dutiful wife and mother. A shame she didn't catch the wave of feminism. because she might have learnt more assertiveness. Respect she deserved.
It makes me wonder how I will feel if or when my siblings or partner pass on. Will I have the same amount of regret? here's praying I don't!