A chronicle of life as one moves along the age time line...not always happily. But always humoressly!
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
And then you have....
Tomorrow I put GiGi down. She is the last of my caretaking responsibilities. For 33 1/2 years, I have cared for children, parents, couple of dogs and a cat. Now they have, in effect, left me. Some through death -- some from moving away physically -- and sometimes mentally -- Didn't think of myself as "caretaker" -- never ever considered that in defining me. But now that GiGi is leaving me (I'm putting her down - but note that "she is leaving me"), I have to ask -- "what's left?". It brings up so many questions -- Who am I now? Who was I then? Why can't I be that now? What is life about? What will the next 25 years be about? No more caretaking leaves me with nothing important to do -- no one depending on me.
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