<p>Did you ever stop to think how fortunate it is that we can’t know the future? How utterly awful it would be if we could?</p>
<p>One of my kid’s friends/former classmates died unexpectedly over the weekend of natural causes. His family will now lay this child to rest at 15 years old. It was just 18 months ago that he was graduated from parochial school in a lovely church, now his funeral will be in the same place.</p>
<p>I just can’t wrap my brain around this and thank God that I can never know what the future holds because I couldn’t live otherwise.</p>
<p>Zoosermom, I am so sorry for your loss. That puts everything into perspective, doesn’t it? CC parents agonizing over AP vs IB, public vs. private. This family has lost a child & it makes those concerns seem quite petty.</p>
<p>Zoos, I have thought the exact same thing many, many times. Our children are born, all sweet smelling and innocent, and we make so many plans for their future, hold out so much hope for them, work very hard to insure that, in the aggregate, life will be much better for them than it has been for ourselves. You assume that they will outlive you. That’s why Columbine and Va Tech were so horrifying. V. Tech especially, really took me way down for a time.</p>
<p>Zoos, I’m so sorry to hear about the young man in your community. So much potential, suddenly…gone. It breaks the heart, I know.</p>
<p>It really does break the heart. So many dreams dashed and so many dark days ahead.</p>
<p>My little guy was asking everyone to choose three wishes recently. I, of course, had only one – the Mother’s Wish. Just let them all outlive me. I’d never ask for another thing if I could have that.</p>