Since this blog is much more personal, I thought I would post this here. An excerpt from "One Day", by David Nicholls. Dexter is speaking, who is confronting his mother's passing away from cancer (inferred):
"He had always imagined that some sort of emotional mental equipment was meant to arrive, when he was forty-five, say, or fifty, a kind of kit that would enable him to deal with the impending loss of a parent. If he were only in possession of this equipment, he would be just fine. He would be noble and selfless, wise and philosophical. Perhaps he might even have kids of his own, and would presumably possess the maturity that comes with fatherhood, the understanding of life as a process.
But he isn't forty-five, he is twenty-eight years old. His mother is forty-nine. There has been some terrible mistake, the timing is out, and how can he possibly be expected to deal with this, the sight of his extraordinary mother diminishing like this?"
Wow, what a powerful passage. Interesting how we think that when we are older we should be mentally prepared to lose a parent.
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