What do you think hurts you more?
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Thread Topic: What do you think hurts you more?
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Someone you love dying, or someone you love forgetting about you?
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For me, I've had two people in my life who completely forgot about me. My great great Aunt Lila and my grandma Bernice.
Lila got a disease that almost completely wiped out her memory. When I went to visit her, she asked me several times who I was or how I got here. It hurt to know she didn't know me. And then, when she passed away, I wasn't surprised or upset, all because I had wasted my feelings on her memory.
Bernice is still alive, but has sundowners disease. She forgets the date, if the stove is on, if she drank her coffee, that sort of thing. She thinks her kids, who are 40+, are ten, and scolds them whenever they do something adults do. Get this; In her mind, I shouldn't exist. And no matter how many times we tell her about us, she doesn't get it. She refuses to remember my family. -
You bring up a good point. I don't think I've ever thought about my parents forgetting about me. I've always believed their dying would be the most painful thing to happen to me, but now I don't know.
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Whether they forget me or not, if I loved them, I want to know that they're still breathing. If they've forgotten me, I'm alone. If they die, I'm still alone, but they're also gone, and everyone else they love suffers as well.
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