Young or Old

Some people made the argument that The Fault in Our Stars was sadder than your average cancer story because it was about kids. I disagree.

What about having an adult who is leaving behind young children? They haven’t lived all of their life and they’re living behind something much more important than potential. Unless you’ve been a parent to human children, you can’t imagine what it’s like to lay there dying leaving behind a part of yourself that you’ll never seen finished.

Depending on how young the kid is you’re missing out on learning to swim or ride a bike, summer camp, puberty, high school, college, first loves, graduations, engagements, weddings, grandchildren and so many other milestones.

Being a teenager and never getting to life a full life sucks. It’s completely unfair but I think watching this life you created have to go through all these milestones without you is worse. Teenagers don’t fully know what they’re missing whereas the dying parent does. I think it’s worse to know exactly what you’re losing than to never have had it at all.