I remember a time not so long ago that all my children were small. I would watch them and wondered what their lives would be like. As a parent of course I wanted them to have a better life than I had. I think all parents want more for their kids than what they had. Today what seems like yesterday was really a long time ago. You can’t keep your kids small forever. You watch them grow and grow until they out grow out of the need of parents who gave them life. You watch them marry have kids and work within various industries. While they all came from the very same family they are all very different. You watch them marry into other families and slowly you watch how they change to become a hybrid of the family you raised them in. You watch them have ups and downs you learn when to stop giving advice and wait for them to ask for advice. You watch them as they have successes, set backs and failures in various aspects of their lives. You learn to cheer in a very different way from when you cheered them on as a small child. You watch them grow and mature, you see them expand and blossom in ways you didn’t know they could. You learn to have pride in them in a very different way and new way. You watch them watch their children and delight they produces mini versions of themselves. You learn to laugh when they say to their kids what you said to them when they were kids. As a grandparent you do a lot of watching, thinking and smiling! So how time as caught up with you and the generation of your family before you is all gone. You see that you are now the vanguard in the family for everything that represents your family of past generations. In all you’re thinking it dawns on you that in a few years your kids will be grandparents and that somehow in all this watching of kids you got old physically and yet you have never felt more alive with deep thoughts and feelings of great love. A part of me wishes I could go back in time because of what I have seen. But going back is impossible… However in truth we can change the past by changing our future. And that is the best part of growing old… You can change the past by changing tomorrow today. I don’t have to be what I was, I can be all that I know I was meant to be for me, my kids, my family and my friends. The way you live today can make past mistakes and regrets fade until a distant memory is not a memory at all. It’s true I have watched my kids change and in doing so I have also watched how I have changed. Just saying!
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 06:01:00 +0000
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