I see my parents once every week or couple of weeks now, and it feels like they’re getting older and older every time I see them. There’s more gray hairs, more wrinkles, more comments on various aches and pains, more health issues etc.
It feels like just yesterday that they seemed so young and full of life, but now time has accelerated and they’re advancing through the years right in front of my eyes. For most of my life I’d never really been a family-type kind of guy and actively avoided spending time with my parents because I thought they weren’t “cool” or whatever.
Been trying to mitigate that over the last few years, as I find that more and more I actually prefer spending time with my family, whether it’s my wife or my parents or sister/brother in law, over anyone else outside of very close friends.
It just makes me very sad to see them get old like this. I feel like the time I have with them is running out and there will come a day when they’ll no longer be around. I find that concept kind of terrifying tbh. Like it will create a hole that’s impossible to fill. My dad lost both his parents and my mom lost her dad, and it was devastating for them.
idk if there’s anything else I can do to make up for all the lost years I went out of my way to avoid spending time with them. trying to make up for it now by either taking them out to trips, activities or really just hanging out and chatting and spending time together. Its the best I can do but is it really enough?