Yeah, I lost my father way back in the late nineties, when I was a teenager. I didn’t even get the chance to move far away and visit him only infrequently.

To make matters worse, I don’t even think I’ll get five more years with my mother, let alone fifteen. She’s 70 and has quite severe COPD that puts her in the hospital with some regularity (yay, smoking). So I probably should visit her more often, while I can.

In most cases, even if you got 15 more, you would feel the same after the extra 15 run out.