It occured to me this afternoon on my way home from the East Bay (see next entry) that a year from now, I'll be as old as my mother was when she died.<\/p>\n
That really struck me, somehow, in ways that other related thoughts (like the thought that when my mother was my current age, she had an 11-year-old and a 9-year-old) never quite did. I'm trying to imagine what it would be like to learn at age 32 or so that you had leukemia, to be told that you have a few months left to live, to manage to stretch that into five years. And then to die in your mid-thirties.<\/p>\n
I know different people go through different stages of life at different times; I know that Marcy at 32 wasn't at the same place in her life that I was; ages aren't really comparable that way. And I know that plenty of other people die that young, and much younger for that matter. But still, I found the thought unexpectedly sobering.<\/p>\n
I'm trying not to be melodramatic about this; I know it isn't one of the Big Profound Insights of the Ages or anything. Just an interesting thought that gave me pause.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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