Wednesday of this week an amazing woman passed on. She lived to be 100 years old, though whe was never old. In fact she didnt have much patience for old people. As I look back on her life I see an amazing person, who no matter what she was presented with, never viewed herself as a victim. She also was never sick a day in her life. When doctors or nurses would come to see her over her later years, their first question would be what medications does she take?. When they were told she took none not even aspirin they were always impressed that a 100 year old wasnt taking anything. She drank coffee, smoked unti she was 65, had her two drinks a night and ate whatever she chose and instead passed on not of illness but because she chose to be somewhere else. She was strong and resolute in her choices in life yet never judgemental or trying to sway you to her views but instead accepting of all. This lady, because that is what she was always, had an amazing way about her. Happy, a quick wit and so open to new things that amazed me more and more the older I got. Harriets husband died 50 years ago, she was left with two teenage sons living in Southern California in the 60s as a single working mother, she had been living in an assisted care facility for about the last 15 years, she didnt get to go out much since she moved into the facility. The last of her 8 brothers and sisters passed almost 24 years ago, all but one of her friends have also passed, she had been proceeded in death by nieces and nephews who lived into their 80s, and as I referred to earlier the toughest of all this was she lived with old people in the facility, never recognizing that she was, chronologically, probably the oldest of them all. However when I would call to speak with her, upon asking how she was her reply was always Great then a pause and would continue with HOW ELSE WOULD I BE. I hope I can remember, on a daily basis, that there is NOTHING in this life that is so bad or being done to me that i need to feel a victim of or to get stressed about, when I look back on the way this woman accepted things in her life as just being the way it was meant to be. This amazing woman I have been sharing with you is my MOTHER. I feel like the child in the story of the child who always thinks they know more than their parents until they get older then realize how smart their parents were. I feel that way about my MOM. however it is not her intellect, though that was great, that I marvel at and want to emulate, it is the way she viewed and accepted life on lifes terms and was happy with it. I will think of you every day MOM, I will miss you and pray that I can be a fraction of the person and parent that you have been in my life. All my love and wishes for a peaceful time ahead.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 15:44:19 +0000
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