While I’m not sure it means anything, a lot of important events in mylife seem to happen in pairs–usually within 24 hours of one another.My mother and her mother’s birthday happened on the same day. Myfather’s birthday and mine are also on the same day. My father-in-law’sbirthday is a day before my daughters. Within a day of each other, Ialso got mentioned on two differentSlashdot articles within a day of each other. I could go on with manyother examples like this. Needless to say, I tend to see a lot ofevents either related to me or people I care about paired up in my life.
Sowhen my wife told me her grandmother was on her deathbed and her deathwas imminent–note she her health had been deteriorating for the pastcouple of years now, so this wasn’t any surprise–it occurred to me atsome point that her death was likely to happen either on ouranniversary or my birthday. I realize that’s not a very nice thought,but given the frequency of “paired” events in my life, it seemedlikely. And it appears another pair is forming. As of a few hours ago,it’s looking very likely that she will pass within the next 24 hours.
Mywife will likely be focusing her energy on her mom for the next severaldays–something I can completely understand under the circumstances. Myenergy will therefore be focused on our kids. I believe my sonunderstands death, but doesn’t have much sense of tact yet, so I have afeeling we will be spending a bit of time explaining to my son how”that’s not a very nice thing to say right now,” among other things.
Family life will be different for the next few days for sure.
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