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blamebramptonMy mother rang me early this morning.
This is a thing she does occasionally, usually when I am working regular hours, or when she has turned up unexpectedly in the same city as me and thinks we should eat together. But sometimes, as today, because someone has died. This time it was her brother, my uncle. A difficult man, who neither of us was close to and who we both ended up on speaking terms with only after a lot of patience on our parts and effort on his.
So it is that strange sort of thing where you are sad that someone has died, and that they did not seem to be able to make happy choices much of the time, but know that you can't in fairness take a week out to be miserable about the whole thing, because you don't have a week's worth of decent memories to sustain it.
But I do recall a thing he said the last time we saw each other: that he wouldn't want to see Donald Trump as president of the USA. I feel that – not for the first time, though almost certainly for the last – he's taken a perfectly understandable position to an illogical extreme.
This is a thing she does occasionally, usually when I am working regular hours, or when she has turned up unexpectedly in the same city as me and thinks we should eat together. But sometimes, as today, because someone has died. This time it was her brother, my uncle. A difficult man, who neither of us was close to and who we both ended up on speaking terms with only after a lot of patience on our parts and effort on his.
So it is that strange sort of thing where you are sad that someone has died, and that they did not seem to be able to make happy choices much of the time, but know that you can't in fairness take a week out to be miserable about the whole thing, because you don't have a week's worth of decent memories to sustain it.
But I do recall a thing he said the last time we saw each other: that he wouldn't want to see Donald Trump as president of the USA. I feel that – not for the first time, though almost certainly for the last – he's taken a perfectly understandable position to an illogical extreme.
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Date: 2016-11-30 02:42 pm (UTC)And thanks for the icon-love, that's Elly, he's a dancer, a grandma's boy, and a lovely human being that would, upon picking up a Happy Mother's Day card somebody lost in his concert venue would actually go and look for said mother amongst the concert goers (and found her!) to give her the card back. He would be happy to hear he's bringing some brightness into people's life.
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Date: 2016-12-01 10:08 pm (UTC)*snerk* I saw similar remarks about Fidel Castro - apparently he once said something about swearing to live to see the US destroyed, so of course once we elected Trump he promptly kicked the bucket.
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Date: 2016-12-02 03:46 pm (UTC)When my father died I was more pissed than sad... it was all due to his own poor choices. I wish you closure in any way, and never feel guilty about not feeling torn up about it.
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