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5 years ago I lost my father and learnt few things. 
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- there are questions, hard ones, uncomfortable ones, important ones that you should ask your parents before they pass away. And now is always the best time.
- there are questions, hard ones, uncomfortable ones, important ones that you should ask your parents before they pass away. And now is always the best time.
- you think important memories will never vanish, they will. Write everything you want to remember: what’s not written is lost.
- one of the best gifts a parent can leave behind is a journal, my father left over 50 years of daily journaling, extreme but oh so amazing.
- it’s the parents’ job to love their children first. I was so lucky to have a parent who showed us what true love means. Don’t wait for your children to deserve your love, doing so set them up for failure and hurting.
- many of your friends went through grief, loosing a parent early will make you enter a warm and sad club, the one for kids who wished for another day.
- 5 years later the shock and pain is exactly the same. You just learn how to fake it. You live with a piece of you that has been taken away forever.
- you will sometimes feel guilty for not having called “that day”, for not having attended “that lunch”. Really invest the time in the people you love or you will regret it deeply.
- there is no manual about how to deal with the death of a loved one. Even worst when it’s “not expected”. I wish I spent a bit more time thinking about this before it happens. It’s hard to know what to do when you get that call.
- heart attacks can happen anytime. Check on your loved ones and if you are a parent and you have children please make your health and your sleep a priority. I wish I was harder on mine...
- you think your kids want you to leave them a bank account full of cash but in reality the most valuable thing you can leave behind is love and beautiful memories.
I got extremely lucky with this one.
I got extremely lucky with this one.
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