If I could travel back to stop time.
Recently, I made an article for a contest about my first love. I said in it that some things aren’t just meant to be in life and it is best when we get over them quickly and move on with life but it definitely wouldn’t hurt to take a glance at the past, beautiful memories can’t be removed from the brain so quickly.
If I could stop the time at a point in my life, I will travel back in time to 1999. It would interest you to know that I was barely 5 years of age but I still have scrambled memories of some beautiful moments I would have loved it lasted forever, this isn’t just about me; it has to do with my family.
I was born into a happy family, my parents were the best in the world, and the love they shared made life beautiful for their kids. As young as I was, I grew up seeing them do things together; the family was a happy one.
Dad was full of energy and my mother dedicated her life to being a good wife and mother at the same time, they were always supporting one another. I saw my dad do house chores then just like I love to do them now, we weren’t rich financially but we had love and happiness in abundance. I have seen them engage in heated arguments but it doesn’t last long before they got back together, I didn’t know how I was able to understand a lot of things back then but there was much transparency in the family.
They supported each other from time to time, dad worked at a company while mom owned a cold room. The whole family was always at the shop on Saturday, we do our homework together and there was this great bond in the family. We spend lots of time together and we usually feel the absence if either dad or mom is away for some time, we were just like the croods.
Dad got the opportunity to travel out and I could remember us going to the embassy on different occasions, it was meant to be a family thing but we couldn’t go due to financial reasons. Mom disposed everything she had to support him, it was a good thing for the family but it turned out to be the first step at ending the love in the family.
Probably they wouldn’t have put too much effort into the traveling since it became the beginning of the end of the love and happiness, he went abroad and that was all. It’s been 23 years and that beautiful family hasn’t spent 6 months together since 1999, I wondered what they could have achieved together supporting, loving, and caring for each other. There are many times I wished he was here to hold our hands and guide us as a family but those are just dreams, I am grateful mom never allowed us to feel his absence but it hurts not knowing if she misses him or not because she hardly talks about it, everything about her today has to do with her kids.
He is married again probably with 4 kids if I am not mistaken and if I could reverse time, I will go back to stop the time in early 1999.
Mom had to go through a lot, it is not easy for a bird to fly on a wing but she did even in the absence of her spouse's love. It would have been great seeing my both parent grow old together in great love, they have reasons to be happy today but wouldn’t it have been better if they were together? I honestly don’t know.
I will use this opportunity to plead with people who go in search of greener pastures never to forget their loved ones, always remember the people who sacrifice everything for you.
I miss him and still him, I will be able to tell him this when our path crosses again.
The post was submitted as an entry to a contest and it first appeared here.
This is so sad, if it's so possible to reverse back the hand of time. There are a lot of memories i would have loved to erase and correct. So sorry for what you are going through all this time.