Sparkles' bbm this morning made me realise how lucky I am to have folks like mine.
Well, indirectly anyway, because she asked if my folks still had sex and my reaction was OMFGROSSWTF before I told her they just left for a trip together, so I guess uhm, yes? *barf*
Seriously tho, it's incredible how my folks are already past 60 and go on holidays together as much as they do (several times a year, leaving me in charge of the damned fish). It's kind of incredible how they bicker like crazy, but still hold hands when they go out shopping. It's kind of incredible watching them struggle to talk to each other - my mom in her good english, my dad in really really bad chinglish - but still talk non-stop all day everyday anyway (it's kind of annoying when you want to watch tv).
It's especially incredible when you think about what they've gone through raising three children in our crazy fluctuating finances, battling sickness and death, dropping out of school and getting retrenched.
It would have been so easy to give up, but they didn't. And I guess I'm just here to say I'm so grateful for that.
And that if I end up at 60 having lived but half the full life they have, I would be so lucky.
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