Yeah, we hear those words often enough. And that we should tell them that we love them. Majority of us are good with this theoretically, but don’t fare well in actual practice. We have to work hard to feed our family. Work overtime to pay the bills. These are the ills of modernization.
As for me I try to spend much time with my loved ones, due to this one experience. It wasn’t really my experience but that of a friend. Her father, who was living in their hometown, died suddenly. When the news was relayed to her, she really cried. Of course. But it was only later that she told me that what hurts most was that she hadn’t spent time with her father lately. Her father had already invited her for a vacation in their hometown, but her busy work schedule plus her responsibilities as a wife and mother had prevented her from going home. I told her it’s not her fault. But that’s not the point. It seems that during that period, there were instances wherein she had the opportunity to go home, but didn’t. Lots of reasons were at hand for her to postpone going home:
· The stay will only be for a few days, so the travel expenses would not be maximized.
· The stay will be longer, but as of now we don’t have enough money.
· We will just go there during the fiesta, so that we will meet a lot of relatives.
· We will go there when you uncle gets married
And so on and so forth. Lots of excuses not go home.
Then her father died. Had she known that her father will die, she would have dropped off everything in her hands just to spend those precious moments…
