THANKS for speaking your mind ! You’re right that nothing applies to everyone, nor should it. There’s something rather liberating in your feelings. It’s a bit like reaching a lifestage where the realization dawns on you that your parents’ opinion of you no longer matters.

I don’t look back often, maybe never. My family tells me I’m the most insensitive of us all. But I have wonderful friends who admit to having trouble keeping their lives together since the loss of a parent. I’m thankful that I don’t have that struggle, and neither do you.

May,

I agree !! It really sneaks up on you. In keeping with my insensitivity , I don’t have a lot of space for “shlock-iness” or what seem to me to be transparent emotional ploys. I guess that would be called your tearjerker.

This letter was not artificial in the least. It was about what life is really about, spoken in a completely uncontrived way. You could hear the room becoming more and more silent as she spoke.

Thanks for the comment.