After a certain age, your parents slowly become your children. They ask simple questions, repeat stories, and depend on your patience the way you once depended on theirs. Very few understand this role reversal.What looks like innocence or inconvenience is really time coming full circle. Don't correct them harshly. Don't rush them. Care for them the way they once protected you. This is not a burden. It is repayment.
my therapist said “people who struggle with anxiety & depression can't remember a lot, bc they're too busy focusing on how to get through each moment so they don t actually experience what is happening to them, causing them to not form the memory they were supposed to” felt that.
I saw something on Tiktok that said, "Nobody isolates more than the oldest daughter who knows nobody is coming to save her". & Tbh immediately I teared up.
Then to add to it, I go to the comments and saw "isolation, extreme independence, the need to accomplish everything but never feeling like you've accomplished enough".
& That hit deep