Comments on: My father’s dreams

By: anne

anne — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 02:02:58 +0000

you’ve got the “fear of surpassing” on the one hand and the “fear of not living up to” on the other. asking someone to take all the wonders of you and do more with them than you can might not be a fair challenge.

and don’t go insulting your legs in the midst of otherwise perfectly lovely and honest self-assessment. your legs go all the way to the ground, you know.

By: jadedju

jadedju — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 00:11:01 +0000

Every time I visited my dad in the year prior to his death, I would plan to finally have that “real” conversation I had been meaning to have. I was never certain what the actual topic(s) might be, but I was quite certain of the need for the conversation. Yet each time I’d see him we’d speak of nothing in particular and I’d never get to the supposedly crucial stuff I had on my mind. Finally, after he died, I started to realize that it wasn’t a specific thing that I needed to say, more that I wanted to feel a connection with him, and that in those visits I had.

Thanks Mig.

By: j-a

j-a — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 19:40:28 +0000

i know my parents never wanted anything more of me than EVERYTHING…

By: marydell

marydell — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 18:47:53 +0000

I recently asked my mother what she wants me to be, mostly because I’m on the path to being a spinster and I know she would love to have grandchildren. She told me she wants me to be happy. Life is short and doing what you have to do or are expected to do doesn’t leave enough time for what you want to do. This, in itself, makes me happy because I believe I’ve already exceeded her dreams.

By: Suzette

Suzette — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:51:15 +0000