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OUR PARENTS NEVER APOLOGIZED
Each generation gets better
Think of how wonderful
Our grandkids will be
If the world can just
Keep it together
Long enough
Think of how wonderful
Our grandkids will be
If the world can just
Keep it together
Long enough
Published 1st Dec 2018
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1st Dec 2018 3:27am
1st Dec 2018 7:21am
Well, since I'm probably old enough to be one of your parents, I'll apologize for not taking better care of a world that will be bequeathed to you and all those who will follow. We all screwed up in our greed.
Like the thought, though.
Like the thought, though.
1st Dec 2018 8:45am
I purposely kept it a little vague, but this poem specifically came out of a moment when I had yelled at my son and immediately regretted it and apologized, giving him a long hug. Speaking with a friend, we both realized that our parents never apologized to us in these moments. Your interpretation is one that I also wanted as a takeaway, because it is something I think about a lot. May our children always take it further than us in the best ways.
Anonymous
1st Dec 2018 10:48am
I got told to be stronger by my dad when i told him I was struggling with depression when i was a teen you can't be sad he sad to me .
1st Dec 2018 4:31pm
"Each generation gets better"
... I truly hope so ... watching my grandchildren grow up, I'm feeling it could go either way. Societal structures seem to me so much unfairer and more stressful than they were 50 years ago. But parental apologies probably reach much deeper.
... I truly hope so ... watching my grandchildren grow up, I'm feeling it could go either way. Societal structures seem to me so much unfairer and more stressful than they were 50 years ago. But parental apologies probably reach much deeper.
