Life may be drastically different in no time at all. In particular, it may change in ways that we have never even dreamed of. This is the story of a daughter whose parents both got ill and passed away within a few years. The story is about the agonizing experience, the power the protagonist showcased, and the love that remained even after the loss. It was nine years ago when her father caught a cold. The cold was thought to be a virus, but no one thought it was serious. Everyone gets colds, and everyone feels tired sometimes. After some time, his coughing and tiredness escalated to something different.
Due to the virus, his heart became weak. The man who was doing everything for his family all of a sudden couldn’t breathe or walk without struggling. The daughter witnessed the demise of her father’s health. He was between the hospital and home continuously. He kept trying to be optimistic, but his body kept getting frailer. For a long time, the family lived in terror. They didn’t know if the next day would be good or bad. So, one day, his heart stopped functioning. He passed away. Their world was shattered by his death. The daughter missed her father’s voice, hugs, and jokes, and thus felt a void within her.
She supposed that life couldn’t be worse. She made attempts to move on with her life. However, life had a different and even more painful surprise. Her mother started to show strange symptoms three years after her father’s death. At the beginning, she had nose problems, bleeding, discomfort, and trouble breathing. After checking her, the doctors announced an aggressive nasal cancer. The daughter was in denial. She had just lost her father, and now her mother was diagnosed with cancer. Her mom endured the toughest treatments. She went through surgeries. When she was in pain, she had to maintain her courage.
She lost weight and the will to live, but she never lost hope. After long months, the doctors finally declared her free of cancer. The family shed tears of happiness. They believed the worst was behind them. However, life is harsh. Her mother’s belly started to bulge one day. It became so big that she could have been mistaken for a woman seven months pregnant. After a series of tests, doctors found cancer cells in the liquid drawn from her stomach. It meant that the cancer had returned, and it was far advanced this time. The daughter was as if going through the same nightmare again. She had the memory of her father dying slowly, and now her mother was going through the most painful thing.
Her mother endeavored to keep up her courage. They laughed and cried together and also held each other’s hands. However, the cancer spread rapidly. Her mother became frailer day by day. It was not long until the doctors told them they had run out of options. Her mom had terminal cancer. Again, the daughter’s heart was shattered. She wished for it. The wish for one more hug, one more talk, one more day. But she needed to bid farewell to her mother also. She lost her mother twenty months after her father’s death. Thus, she was left with an unimaginable kind of pain, the pain of losing both of her parents. The ones who loved her the most. The ones who supported her.
The ones who made her feel safe. Her father started composing a children’s book before he got sick. The mission to finish that book became hers after the demise of both her parents. Love, she wanted to immortalize it through something nice. She wanted to reveal to the world that love can still grow after losing everything. Her story imparts a very important lesson to us: We live on a very thin line. The ones we love may vanish all of a sudden. So we have to love deeply, speak kindly, and cherish each day we are given. This is because not a single thing in this world is guaranteed, not even tomorrow.
