Day 6: Something You Hope You Never Have to Do
I hope that I never have to watch my child die or learn of my child's death.
Full Disclosure: I don't have children and might not have them any time soon. This could change, of course, but not for a while; Lovely Girlfriend and I have to be monetarily and emotionally strong, both individually and as a couple. (I'd imagine that readers who are parents would probably retort that there is really no perfect time to have a child, but I would submit that, while that might be true, there are certainly better times than right after you meet someone, while you are an apartment manager, and do not have a steady, paying job.)
Having said all of that, this strikes me as the saddest thing that can happen to a person. I don't envy the parents who have to deal with this particular brand of grief.
I heartily concur. There is an 'Order of Things' in the universe that should be observed. Children dying before their parents is NOT the correct order. The End.
ReplyDeleteAlso, you are right. Failure to plan is planning to fail. In parenting, as in life. It's always, always better to prepare a nest for a Little One rather than to randomly bring new life into the world. Alas, those who pause to ponder these things are few and far between.
Sign me "Parent of One" for a really good reason. Okay, several really good reasons.
What about if your children were real jerks who didn't write and stuck you in an old folks' home and then spent your pension on gambling and booze and then later framed you when a twelve year old Thai hooker showed up dead of a heroin overdose in the trunk of the car they stole from you but they had solid alibis because there were at least thirty other people attending the same black mass at the time of death where they sacrificed the goat to fuel a spell that would give you bedsores?
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