Prioritize what you should keep and what you should leave. It’s just like when you packing your bag to get on a plane you can’t take everything especially when you travelling with a certain no frills airline that shall remain nameless.
The love for the parents is one thing but there are the siblings and the extended family. Do you want to be around them or would you prefer to not even be related? Would you want to give back the family card?
Living by yourself when you are younger is so different from when you live on your own later in life. No that’s not my own words but said to me by a number of older relatives.
Being a parent comes with no manuals. It is a journey that never ends. I will be their mom forever. Very often we have to make up the manual ourselves as we go along.
The things is when we take things for granted it’s when we sometimes no longer feel grateful for them.
Even with all that’s going on around it’s still my happy time. I play my Christmas music. Started from beginning of December 😁. I won’t allow what’s going on around me to determine how I live my life. Life must go in and it should be as happy as possible.