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Quote of the day: "No wise man ever wished to be younger." ~ Jonathan Swift, an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and Anglican cleric
I made Grandmom Hughes cry one day.
In the midst of talking about the past, I asked her if she would go back and do it all over again – and she averred that she would. Now Grandmom hadn’t had an easy life. The middle daughter of a Welsh immigrant coal miner, she was orphaned at 14, and had to work in a nylon factory to support herself. She raised three kids during the Depression, had one son who ran away from home, lied about his age, and joined the Navy during WWII, and had a daughter who had to live with her while her husband fought in the Korean War. At 50, she decided to become a pediatric nurse at City Hospital and saw much illness and death there. And she, without hesitation, said she would do it all over again. And she was absolutely stunned that at 19 or so, I emphatically said that I would never want to go back. The bullying, the angst, the family problems – none of that seemed worth repeating to the teen-aged me. Grandmom couldn’t imagine that I was that cynical and hurt at such a young age, and she wept
I am a decade older than Grandmom was when we had that chat, and as I look back on my life, I find myself asking myself that question again – and the answer hasn’t changed. I mean, I didn’t really have a hard life after all is said and done, and there were definitely some high points to offset the bad times. It isn’t that I feel tragic or forlorn or anything, I just don’t want a repeat or even a do-over
I still don’t want to go back and do it all over again. I just don’t
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