My ten year old grand-daughter, ‘Maya’ and I were into Jewelry making for the last one week. She calls me Pancho. Yesterday she confided something to me.
“Pancho, I couldn’t sleep yesterday night… I felt that we have become very close to each other since we started making the Jewelry.. I can’t imagine you getting old and dying one day. My heart was going to break just thinking about it… I couldn’t sleep at all yesterday night and I couldn’t stop crying. So I woke up my Mom and told her that I couldn’t sleep thinking about how Pancho is getting older and older and die one day just like that..”
“Mom was not happy to be woken up like that …”
Mom told me:
“It is true that Pancho will get old… but you have to know that when she gets old she will become an old grumpy old woman just like your Great-Grand Ma, and then you will not like her this much. So you will not feel that bad when she dies… so now you can go to sleep. “
Maya then asked me:
“So Pancho, is it true that you will become a grumpy old woman like Great-Grand Ma when you become very old?”
I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, when I heard it. LOL !
It is a true story… LOL
