Age, Aged

Funny, age isn't it?
When we are in our teens, we want to grow up so fast, and then once we realise that the spark we once had, that youthful glimmer in our eyes has begun to dull, we race around trying to 'fix' it.
The only thing that is assured to us in life is a birth and a death, nothing more, all else is attained, but birth and death are given facts which we cannot refute.

The other day, I received the news that my mother is expecting another child, I am going to be 20 years older than this child and have no part in it's life, because I won't be around, and the age gap between my sisters isn't going to help either. I can't help feeling that this child is going to feel isolated, starting its life when everyone is busy sorting their own lives out.
But it made me think though, It made me remember, in essence, my own birth and childhood, and now that I can understand what it means to bring another life into this world (by understanding I mean that I am no longer a child who thought babies were delivered in the post) and I can also understand the events which shaped me with such clarity.



KG