• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Oh my god this is so true.

    I recently heard “Another Day in Paradise” by Phil Collins, which I hadn’t heard since the 80s when I was a kid. It immediately brought back memories of being at home and Mom playing that song a lot, with just the two of us in the house, after Dad left.

    Looking back at those memories through my adult eyes (I have a nearly-photographic memory and can vividly remember even ancient memories as if I’m still there), I can see my mom’s sadness and loneliness.

    And then I realize she was my age. She had a little five year old boy. She was alone, unsure what to do. Putting on a smiling face not just for me but for herself too, cleaning the house with that song blasting. Like, I can watch the memories like video and I can see the heartache I couldn’t see back then.

    I just want to go back in time, wrap my arms around her, and hold her tight.

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    The worst thing is growing up and seeing them less and less to the point where once you do end up seeing them, they look WAY older than your mental image of them. Cherish your parents while you have them

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    My mother has complained for years how her adopted parents didn’t do a good job raising her. At the time they had three kids of their own and then adopted my mother and her sibling who are their nieces. One day I did the math and pointed out to my mother that her adopted parents were only 25 when they took on 5 kids and did she think their age had something to do with it? It blew her mind and gave her a whole new perspective … for a few minutes. Then she jumped back on the whinge wagon. Sometimes what we want to see is more important than objective observations.

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    1 year ago

    Middle aged man baby with a lovely wife with aspirations of having a child here reporting in. Not having read any comments… this hits hard and goddamn you OP 😖

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    1 year ago

    As a newish parent, this resonates with me. I’m flying by the seat of my fuckin pants over here.

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      Most terrifying thing about becoming a parent, as raising just how little of a clue my own parents must have had to start with. I mean, all that time I was feeling safe and really, is a marvel we didn’t all die in a bath tub fire event!

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        Great observation. I always wondered how it was so easy for my parents until I realized no, it wasn’t. I always felt that if the house were to burn down I would be safe. Never thought twice about it, totally took them for granted.

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          I’d like to think that’s what good parents do though, make the kids feel safe and protected. Hopefully it means yours were good ones :)

          Edit: “good parents” not “foods parents” dyac!

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            Excellent, I’m definitely fortunate. We didn’t have extra $$ but it never mattered much.

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    1 year ago

    So is this community just going through Reddit and verbatim reposting old threads?

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      Just wait until the bots get here, hoo boy.

      Followed by ad companies making shower thoughts about their products.

      Followed by Propaganda accounts having shower thoughts not about Tiannamen Square.

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        I’m hoping bots won’t be too much of a thing, because farming account karma isn’t a thing. There will be some, but hopefully it’s not literally everything like Reddit was by the end.