This morning at 05:00 Aussie time passed away a little old lady.
A little old lady who saw the worst of humanity and never really had it easy in life.
Born into a family that was common folk, living their lives, back in the 1930’s, in a turbulent Europe that was heading into what became World War II.
She grew up in those times, saw her dad disappear in a cloud of dust and smoke, as she gazed through an opening in a dark bunker, the earth trembled and everything just ended. Til 05:00 this morning she was afraid of the dark.
As the war came to an end she went through the horrors of hiding herself and her little sister from the horrific animals known as the “Red Army”. Nothing but the worst creations to have ever walked on the earth of this planet. Finding refuge and saving herself and her sister in those years when pure evil reigned over more than half of Europe, working and surviving, so as to feed her mother, her sister and herself. Being bullied by those who overnight changed their badges on their uniforms another sad story of a child who had to go through the terrors of war.
Any way, she survived, managed to live, which was a big thing in those years. She met a bloke who was tall dark and handsome, another person who went through the terrors of war as a child, who at the age of 15 was given a rifle and ordered to protect his people against the oncoming terror. However, they hooked up and took on the holy sacrament of marriage. In the 1950’s they had two sons, then soon after looking to create a future for their two sons they decided to go to Australia.
Luckily those were the golden years in Australia, Sir Robert Menzies was the man, the country was booming and no matter who was who and who was what in the past all the people who respected the West were more than welcome. It was those generations that made Australia known as “The Lucky Country”.
Then in the 1970’s this lady her husband and sons along with a few mates were headed towards one of the beaches and she felt a little “ill”, vomiting and so on. One of the mates cracked a joke “Dee watch out, you could be pregnant". Now this was a joke because after her second child in the 50’s she was told by the doctors that it wasn’t possible for her to have kids anymore. I could just imagine the fun her and her husband had after that!
Well, guess what, she was pregnant and the doctors all said that she should consider having an abortion. She was all for it. In fact it almost caused an end to the marriage, because her husband didn’t want to mess with nature. Not referencing religion at all, he looked upon this child as his as much as it is hers and couldn’t imagine that he agree to killing this child.
So this child was born, a little early, caesarean, or Csection as I have heard it called in the past two decades (maybe more, I don’t know).
As this child was brought up, she made sure that the child knew that he wasn’t a wanted child, that it was his dad that saved his life, that if it was up to her that she would have done the abortion. Every time the weather changed she would tell this child that her wounds from the caesarean cut hurt... and so on, and so on..... when at home alone with him she would act one way and when with any public around she would act another way.
No matter what this child did, it was never good enough. Windge windge windge....
Then one year she promised him one of those little Nintendo games, kids nowadays don’t know what I am talking about, something like a tamagochi, with a one colour lcd screen and so on, this was a hit in the mid 80’s. However the condition was that he had to get straight A’s and or B’s. Because up to that point the kid just didn’t care what grades he got at school.
So you know what the kid did, he got all straight A’s in every subject except “Sports”, there he got a “C”... the kid was a bit of a roly poly in those days. Good at fighting, just chubby and not that good a runner!
So she didn’t buy him what she said. OK. So the kid from that year onwards started getting better at “Sports” and later on represented his Highschool in two “sports” and kept his A average going, just to prove that he can do it.
Nope, still not good enough!
OK, so then as this kid got to the age of 18 he decided that was it, he went his own way and did what he did in life. Saw the world, got a better understanding of the stories that he listened to as a kid about his parents childhood and so on.
Decades later a repeat of history occurred, basically same incentive, to ensure the kids (grandkids of this little old lady) have a better future. Different war, different people, different everything, but yet the same.
Well, one day this man now, asked his mum, “Can my wife and kids stay at your place for a few weeks until she takes care of all the paperwork and finds a house to rent?”
The answer was “You are my son, OK.”
The kid/man/father of four, felt a warm and fuzzy.
The next day, she called them back, yelling and screaming how “no one is going to take her house away from her....how she is calling long distance that it is expensive... her house, her house her house........” when she finished her rant, the man who was up to that moment her son, said, “If my wife and children are not welcome at your place, then you have just got that abortion that you wanted, Goodbye.” That was that.
Note: It was presumed that the eldest brother of this man may have had something to do with this as he had tried to con their parents out of their house a few times in the past. Again, presumed, as no one knew for sure.
Well, today it was relayed to her daughter in law that she passed away at 05:00.
The man got the news, was sorry to hear of it, but at the same time just doesn’t seem to be hurt as he had already gone through those emotions when in his hard headed nature gave his word to her on the “long distance phone call”.
Funny how some people when they cross someone out of their lives, become the way this man is. The truth is the truth, no matter how one tries to express it.
Does he hold the past against her? No.
He will say a few prayers for her.
However he does have his priorities straight, his wife and children are his one and only family, no one else matters when they are at question. That is That. (end of that story)
Just goes to prove that there is some truth in the old proverb/saying that I have put on top of this post!
May she RIP, may God forgive her for her sins and may this be a lesson for all those who for one second don’t show love and affection towards the children of this world 24/7, 365 days a year, no matter who they are and where they are.