In less than two weeks I will be 74

This is a matter of amazement for me.

Older just keeps happening. I must have thought it would stop or at least pause, but no.

It’s like being on an old sliding board in some abandoned playground. It’s not smooth and it’s rusted, but with many a jolt and scary bump (is it finally breaking?), you shudder and startle and at last arrive at the bottom, and people swarm around you yelling, “Happy birthday!!!”

What, again?

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mindstruggle · 31-35, F

Happy Birthday.
It makes me feel so emotional everytime it's my mom's bday. She's getting older and I'm away.

DrScissorhands

@mindstruggle This is what terrifies me from taking a job so far from my own mom. She's nearly 80 and I never want to be away when she needs me.

mindstruggle · 31-35, F

@DrScissorhands
It's crazy how I'm taking care of others and yet so far away from my mom.
I'm going home soon.

DrScissorhands

@mindstruggle I hope you get to see her soon. Good mothers are to be truly treasured. 🤗

Mamapolo2016 · F

@mindstruggle I had the rare privilege (rare these days) of being able to move in with my mom and care for her when she (finally) needed help. I had mostly lived away and we got to know each other.

One of my fondest memories of her is when she ultimately needed 24/7 care and I couldn’t keep her safe. She actually escaped from the nursing home. The police pulled her over on her wheelchair (not electric, powered by sheer determination) on the Main Street of our sleepy little town.

She was intent on going to see her only brother, because he was sick and needed her. In truth, he had died, at 43, almost half a century earlier, from an undiagnosed heart defect.

But she was hell bent for election to care for him, and little things like locks and rules and transportation would not stop her.

mindstruggle · 31-35, F

@Mamapolo2016
Bless her heart. 🥺♥