Pedestal Are For Objects

This past week I spent some time with my mom and grandma. Of course, memories come up and without guiding them there often times we can remember the bad choices a person makes. The person in question is my grandfather. He has been gone for 13 years now. Bringing my children to visit my grandma only seems exacerbate the fact that he is gone. He died very young and missed out on weddings, college graduations, high school graduations and new babies. I know my grandfather was not a perfect man but when someone passes on they slowly move to a pedestal. I have such a hard time listening to anything negative my grandma might share. I know this isn’t only true for our loved ones who have passed. We all have those people in our lives that we don’t really see as humans and God forbid they should disappoint us. My sister and I have put our dad up there. This is why it makes it so hard that he left me at ballet once for an extra three hours and my poor sister almost had to walk home from gymnastics…she was five. Tell me, who have you put up there?

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