My FIL lives with us because he is older and in bad health, mostly due to his poor life choices, but that's another matter. This week he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. So, his whole family is in an uproar, crying and going on like the world is ending. While I found all of this really interesting apparently I've missed the point? I'm being told I'm cold, emotionless and don't really care. But that's not true because I care that my wife is sad and I've tried to help her do things around the house to make her father more comfortable. But, because I have not jumped onto the emotional bandwagon with everyone else I am seen as some sort of monster. Sorry, people live and people die, just like everything else. When my own parents died I felt very little. I liked them but they lived a nice long life, got sick and died...that was a good thing as they were suffering. Maybe I am too cold, I don't know. But I do know that when it is my time to go I don't want all of these people turning everything upside down mourning what I see as a normal, natural occurrence. When I'm on my way out, people can stop in to visit, say goodbye and then leave me alone since I'll probably want to finish whatever book I'm reading at the time anyway.
24 Sep 2015, 3:29 am
