Readers Comments
RMB333 wrote: WHAT A HEART WARMING STORY - TRULY BEAUTIFUL & WONDERFUL! Thanks a million or sharing with us ... THE PARENTS JUST PRICELESS! Untold Blessing will follow you - endlessly!
pgwingo wrote: I no longer have my parents. I wish everyday that they were here to talk to me about the little things in life. My grandchildren ask my questions after question about my life growing up. I truley do not know. Take the time now before it is too late!
erinvictoria wrote: I think we are all like that, no matter how old we are. We forget that our parents had a life before having children. I loved your story and it was a great reminder to all of us to talk to our families and ask about their stories. You may have just started a whole revolution of families beginning to actually talk and enjoy the conversation. Awesome. Thanks for the wake up call. I needed it. My grandma will be 97 this month. I need to talk to her! I bet she has stories to tell!
rainbowSmiles wrote: This post is full of realization and motivation. I just imagined how i would watch my parents items and think about it all when they are not there. Now, we don't notice and talk about so many things we should. We often argue/complain about past and waste precious time. You have given such an eye-opener here, which fills my heart with gratefulness and eyes with tears.
Love and blessings to you!
Love and blessings to you!
LJeanne wrote: This is a wonderful reminder to take to heart. It is not only death that can rob us of the opportunity to hear those stories, for the fist time or the thousandth time. My mother had a stroke many years ago that has left her physically fine, but unable to speak coherently. She tries to talk and tell stories, but the words that are firing in her brain, are not connecting with her speech. Sometimes a phrase will slip out, or a few words that make sense. She has an amazing capacity to laugh and look at the bright side, so we are happy for that :) before dementia, alzheimer's or a stroke claims your opportunity- reconnect and you won't be sorry. As a side note~ my daughters project while in college was to "interview" her grandmother (pre-stroke), having grown up during the depression, she had many stories, and they were all captured for her college paper. How fortunate we are for that! :)
Diane wrote: I only wish one of my sons would read your letter and maybe it would make them want to to talk to their dad and me. We are both 70 years old - married 50 years and none of them has ever asked anything about us for a long, long time. We hardly ever hear from them, unless they want something.
oldgirl wrote: My grandmother used to say we have several stages in our life - our own year to adulthood, before children and then life itself. It is true too as once we have children our life does change and often we forget that our parents went through the same stages.
Thanks for sharing your wonderful story and realising it is not too late for you to get to know your parents as people rather than "just parents" crosby2126.
Thanks for sharing your wonderful story and realising it is not too late for you to get to know your parents as people rather than "just parents" crosby2126.
choi wrote: Hi thank you
hasifa wrote: I need to do better towards my parents. Thank you for inspiring me. My father was a child soldier in my country and i have never asked him about it. I promise to start after reading your story. Thank you for sharing. I needed to read this.
~give to the world your best and the best will come back to you~
~give to the world your best and the best will come back to you~
A2Zmom4 wrote: I bring along a voice recorder so that i can savor our conversations & replay the stories when my parents are no longer around to re-tell them to me & my children. Plus, i'll always have the comfort of their voices forever saved so i won't miss them so terribly much after god takes them home.
