No one prepares you for this. You have been familiar with keywords, which circulated around your childhood when someone mentioned ancestors. To you, they were like a third leg - equally unexplainable and mysterious. But you were far from them, with your life ahead of you and your parents still young.
But once you reach adulthood, you get closer and closer to encyclopedia entrances, able to name diseases, recognize symptoms, and find your way in the complex labyrinth or corridors of one or two hospitals.
No one prepares you for your parents' aging process and mental deterioration. No one tells you that the ones who take care of you, the responsible and trustworthy, will once require your presence, support, and push you to the limits. No one tells you that it can destroy your personal life and career. No one prepares that it will be just beyond your strength and patience. No one explains that you won't be able to save your own mum or dad, despite the money you earn and the responsibilities you take on yourself.
At the same time, it seems that it will be the path of the majority of us, and then our children or institutions we are willing to pay for.
Two stories about two fathers, two pictures of disease, loneliness, and pain, the majority of us can or will relate to.
2011 Fear of Falling and 2020 The Father
But once you reach adulthood, you get closer and closer to encyclopedia entrances, able to name diseases, recognize symptoms, and find your way in the complex labyrinth or corridors of one or two hospitals.
No one prepares you for your parents' aging process and mental deterioration. No one tells you that the ones who take care of you, the responsible and trustworthy, will once require your presence, support, and push you to the limits. No one tells you that it can destroy your personal life and career. No one prepares that it will be just beyond your strength and patience. No one explains that you won't be able to save your own mum or dad, despite the money you earn and the responsibilities you take on yourself.
At the same time, it seems that it will be the path of the majority of us, and then our children or institutions we are willing to pay for.
Two stories about two fathers, two pictures of disease, loneliness, and pain, the majority of us can or will relate to.
2011 Fear of Falling and 2020 The Father
