I'm in my 50s and loved my growing up years with parents and grandparents just minutes away in a dinky little unincorporated town. I think about those every day. Some days it's too much and I have to stop. Miss my family on the other side but one day I'll be with them.
I understand totally. Though it would have been great to grow up in a small town, I grew up in a suburb on a dead end street; so without the traffic of a normal road, it felt small. I have but one relative left from the old country, and when she's gone I will be seriously sad. I'm 1st generation American and all my customs, my heritage all came from my (legal) immigrant family. I loved the stories they would tell, and some weren't so great because they lived through WWII in Europe, but the first hand account is good to know. I miss them terribly as well but you're right - we'll all be together again :) Gotta keep the good memories and let them fill your heart. It's rough sometimes, I know. But I'm sure yours are smiling down on you the same way mine are :)
I'm in my 50s and loved my growing up years with parents and grandparents just minutes away in a dinky little unincorporated town. I think about those every day. Some days it's too much and I have to stop. Miss my family on the other side but one day I'll be with them.
I understand totally. Though it would have been great to grow up in a small town, I grew up in a suburb on a dead end street; so without the traffic of a normal road, it felt small. I have but one relative left from the old country, and when she's gone I will be seriously sad. I'm 1st generation American and all my customs, my heritage all came from my (legal) immigrant family. I loved the stories they would tell, and some weren't so great because they lived through WWII in Europe, but the first hand account is good to know. I miss them terribly as well but you're right - we'll all be together again :) Gotta keep the good memories and let them fill your heart. It's rough sometimes, I know. But I'm sure yours are smiling down on you the same way mine are :)