... and this happens to EVERYBODY?
August 30, 2010 9:38 AM Subscribe
Do you remember when you learned that people die? Do you remember a time when you did not know this? When you learned that people die, did you realize that this applied to you as well? How did you feel when you learned?
I didn't have any relatives that died when I was young, and yet, somehow, I learned that people died when I was too young to remember this experience. If I didn't know that people died, and I learned it now, I'd be like "HOLY CRAP WHAT?" Is that how I felt then? Did I accept it as perfectly natural? I'll never know.
And that is why I am soliciting YOUR stories.
I didn't have any relatives that died when I was young, and yet, somehow, I learned that people died when I was too young to remember this experience. If I didn't know that people died, and I learned it now, I'd be like "HOLY CRAP WHAT?" Is that how I felt then? Did I accept it as perfectly natural? I'll never know.
And that is why I am soliciting YOUR stories.
This post was deleted for the following reason: This is kinda chatty, but you may find some useful stuff in a previous question. -- cortex
Well, this may or may not survive as chatfilter but.....I asked my mother (when I was 4) about where George Washington was now (we were looking at a quarter), and she explained that he died. Then I asked her if that meant SHE would die someday. Then some crying commenced. I remember exactly where we were when we had the conversation.
posted by availablelight at 9:43 AM on August 30, 2010
posted by availablelight at 9:43 AM on August 30, 2010
I had a great-grandmother pass when I was 8, I think, but it didn't really seem to make any sense to me at the time.
However, the following year, I saw "A League of Their Own" in the theater with my mom, and came home and cried and cried and cried because somehow that movie made me suddenly very aware of my, and those around me, mortality.
I think it was the ending, when there's all the old pictures being shown with "This Used to Be My Playground" playing, and all the ladies who were so young and beautiful and glamorous in the pictures were now old, with deceased spouses, and what not. Somehow this put it all into perspective for me.
Death did seem natural to me, it never seemed "weird" or "impossible" - but the emotional part of it didn't hit me in a normal way. Thanks, Penny Marshall. :)
posted by slyboots421 at 9:44 AM on August 30, 2010
However, the following year, I saw "A League of Their Own" in the theater with my mom, and came home and cried and cried and cried because somehow that movie made me suddenly very aware of my, and those around me, mortality.
I think it was the ending, when there's all the old pictures being shown with "This Used to Be My Playground" playing, and all the ladies who were so young and beautiful and glamorous in the pictures were now old, with deceased spouses, and what not. Somehow this put it all into perspective for me.
Death did seem natural to me, it never seemed "weird" or "impossible" - but the emotional part of it didn't hit me in a normal way. Thanks, Penny Marshall. :)
posted by slyboots421 at 9:44 AM on August 30, 2010
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posted by raztaj at 9:40 AM on August 30, 2010