my journaling was badly translated by google, sorry! If I understand correctly, I tried to write about something I would change now that I see things differently... The term hindsight is 20/20 is not used in Portuguese, and when I was trying to translate the explanation, I had an idea of what feeling it would mean to me. Certainly, it is the regret of not knowing more about our family's past, and especially about my past and yours, mom, and now you are gone and all the people who could also know about the stories are no longer here either. .. It's a big empty in my heart, and even small details, like a family recipe that I thought I could do and I can't reproduce, it hurts very deep in my heart. And what about the photos, there are so many, and an overwhelming majority I don't know who the people are or what event it was. Why didn't I think of that before? was it be because I did not want to admit that one day you would die? If I could go back in time, among so many other things, I would for sure be listening to many more stories, I would insist even when it seemed that you didn't really wanted to talk ... but even so, I still had the opportunity to hear various stories and family things, I think because I was the youngest, you talked and didn't think I was paying attention ... oh no! lol! but for sure, i would remember to write down the recipes and would not judge my memory infallible! really, hindsight is 20/20 ...
This brought tears to my eyes...I think that we, as storytellers and collectors of memories think that we will always have time to document everything...but it is not always so. This makes me want to go to my mom and dad right now and ask them everything about their life!!
@bcnatty please,go and hug your parents!! it's not that I wasn't close to my mom, it's just life, she was kinda "old" when I was born, 44 yo, so I was busy being a kid, then a teen, then I went to college...life goes by really fast and we just take for granted somethings....I wish she was here!
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