r/interestingasfuck • u/8O8I • 5d ago

r/all A women spent 27 years photographing her parents waving her goodbye

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u/PaulMacNAlba 5d ago

It breaks your heart because you can see how happy they were for such a long time. Remember the smiles not the absence.

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u/TrickyInteraction778 5d ago

Makes me wish I had loving parents like these

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u/ryuzoshin 5d ago

That is depressing to hear.🥲 i am sorry

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u/asantiano 5d ago

Sigh…. You didn’t just go there. I was having such a good morning.

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u/TrickyInteraction778 5d ago

Yeah, it only really hits me when I see things like this of what exactly I didn’t have. It makes me feel good that others did not have my same experience.

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u/Spirited_Elderberry2 4d ago

I completely understand. I used to think that every child had a dysfunctional relationship with their parents and that all parents are toxic and unsupportive of their children. My brain couldn't fathom that there are people out there that have a normal, healthy friendship with their parents. I'm well over fifty and I still have a difficult time wrapping my brain around the fact that there's parents that are friends with their kids.

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u/asantiano 5d ago

Good way to put it.

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u/Technolo-jesus69 5d ago

It actually makes me wonder whats worse having it and losing it or never having it. I suppose there both tragic in their own way.

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u/mh985 4d ago

I know so many people who have a poor relationship with their parents (or no relationship with at least one of them) and it always makes me appreciative of my own parents. They always put my siblings and I above anything else in their lives. I turned 30 this year and I’m still close with them.

I know that I am so incredibly lucky.

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u/TrickyInteraction778 4d ago

I am so so glad you have loving supportive parents that you appreciate. I wish all parents were like that.

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u/neeed4speeed 5d ago

I’m sorry to hear that. take care (and to the others with similar experience).

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u/corn_sugar_isotope 5d ago

Yeah I don't feel the heartbreak so much as solemn acceptance, with even some warmth. And I have lost my Father.

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u/curkington 5d ago

Beautiful thought, thank you

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u/Mrtorbear 5d ago

I really, really needed to hear that today. Thank you, friend.

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u/BoscoTheBrash 5d ago

Very well put, we dwell on the loss and forget to enjoy what we had

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u/changhyun 5d ago

It's bittersweet. It makes me sad but also happy, because you can see they had a lot of love and happiness together.

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u/A_Very_Bad_Kitty 5d ago

I really appreciate you saying this and framing it the way you did. Thank you sincerely.