Time Passes

Lately I have felt a certain attraction for watches, is it that I am thinking a lot about time? Well, I think that one day your children are small and depend on you and when you least expect it, they are grown up and no longer need you as before and you have that strange feeling where you are just a spectator waiting for them to let you know when they will need you again, it is their life and their decisions, it is time to fly with their own wings.

On the subject of time, my daughter is turning 20 today and since a few days before I have been telling her that you are about to turn 20, you have reached the second floor and I notice her with mixed feelings between happiness and fear.

I received several messages from friends who knew her when she was a little girl and the first thing they said to me was that it seems unbelievable that your daughter is already 20 years old, how time goes by and we don't even realize that there is so much truth in these messages, we live such an accelerated life that we don't realize it.

I began to remember how my princess has grown up and will soon leave the nest and take the course of her life as a mother, I think about the past, present and future that I have to accept, could it be that I am suffering from the empty nest syndrome, the one we parents feel when our children leave home and are no longer in your care and you are afraid that something will happen to them? Fear comes from both sides.

She is currently on vacation from college and I asked her how she was going to celebrate her 20th birthday, the first thing she said was that I don't want to have a birthday, I want to stay little, I am afraid to face life alone.

It is normal to be afraid, especially to make mistakes, mistakes are part of growing up, life always gives a margin of error, nobody is perfect, she was not very convinced of everything we talked about, I think that all beings when we grow up we go through that bridge, I began to remember my time to make my own decisions, I was 17 years old when I started my working life, I saw myself reflected in my daughter, but she will be fine, the time has come to learn from her own mistakes.

My eldest son came to visit and joined the conversation well you know how life is between siblings he made her cry with his advice I watched them talk and in my mind just a movie of all our experiences their birthdays, travels, the fall of his first tooth, the diseases so many moments together, successes and failures I got a certain nostalgia I got like the old lady on the Titanic everything is in my memory 🤣🤣, but that's what life is all about.

Time must be taken advantage of because it passes and it does not stop, we must enjoy the good moments and learn to enjoy each stage with our children and family, we must not waste time on trivial things because despite the bad things that can happen to you, life is always beautiful, I can only pray to God that you always find the right path and as I always tell you it will not always be rosy.

Definitely you have to take advantage of the time today we are tomorrow we do not know do not waste valuable time in unnecessary discussions enjoy the family love yourself as you are improve what you have to improve life is only one laugh cry sing dance see that time passes and does not stop bye bye bye that's all for today.