Parents

When did parents turn from our strength to our weakness? Moms and daughters have such a special relationship - they can't live with each other nor can they live without each other. It's a relationship where a lot goes unsaid - for the better or worse. Moms understand so much that the daughters don't even have to say - they can just sense it. Maybe we understand these things only at a time when we're not living with them anymore, and I'm not sure if that's right.

My parents visited me here in the US recently. For three and half weeks, and saying goodbye to them at the airport was the hardest. My fear of missing them so much and having a sleepless night the day they leave came true. It feels right now like everywhere I went with them, I'll see them in those places when I go again and that scares me even more. Even the little things seem much bigger right now. All the things you had taken for granted are valued more. It's different when you move to a different city and leave everyone behind, it's all new - places to be explored and memories to be made. But it changes when you're the one left behind. And that's how I feel now. But this trip of theirs has changed us in many ways - for the better for sure and I hope it's to stay. I've, for sure, become more tolerant to their different tastes, ideas and attitude towards some things and I see them meeting me halfway, which means the world to me.