“The goal is to die with memories, not dreams.” -Unknown
The Goal Is
This was a good post to read this morning. I was up very early after the phone call. You know the one.
My mother has finally gone. It has been a hard few months for her and she finally let go.
But I am not sad at all about it. She had a lot more memories than dreams left. Likely her biggest dream was getting the family together and she will have that at the end at least one more time.
The next few days will be full of those memories and hearing from others share theirs that involve her. It will be difficult for me, someone who has been isolating a bit especially from family. but also, the woman they knew isn’t the woman I knew.
It will be an interesting game I play trying to sort out the memories I can keep and the ones I have spent years trying to run from.
But then it will be time to start again making the memories I want to make and stop just dreaming about them.
Lisa Gray 