Forgetting something?

Aging is something that can be very controversial. After a certain age people dont like having the a candle for every year on their cake. But as a kid you want as much as the cake can hold so you can blow more candles out. Some people buy bigger cakes to make a joke for and older person so it can fit a candle for each year. Once my mom did that for my grandma and she didnt think it was that funny, but for I thought that was the coolest thing in the world and I could wait until I turned as old as my grandma so I could have a giant cake and a ton of candles. But now that i am older I understand why people especially women hate getting older. For male its seems to come out more as a joke for being old. But women still get offended if you think they look older than what they really are. But as a child you cant wait to get older so you can get the things that older people get. But once you get that age everyone forgets about how bad you wanted to be that old when you are younger. With age you become to break down you cant do the same things that you could do before in some cases. But its fuuny to see how much peoples outlooks on things tend to change form when you were little. But occasionally you find and older person that still hasnt lost that outlook, and tend to be more fun loving rather than bitter for being old and those are the coolest elderly people I know. I want to be that kind of old person becaues they say you finish raising your kids you get to play with your grandkids. Having that same outlook on things when your old will allow you to have a lot more memories and relationships for you and your grandkids. Who doesn't want that?

What is death to a child?

When I was eight years old my grandpa passed away. He had cancer and was slowly getting worse, it was good for us cause it was not a sudden death which is harder to explain to a child. I was old enough to understand the concept. But at that time I had also had a little brother that was four years old and he was not able to see very much of my grandpa while he was healthy. And really didnt understand what death really was so he wasnt able to cherish what little time my grandpa had before he passed away. I feel that this has positive and negative effects. Postive because my little brother really didnt miss him too much after my grandpa had passed away. So when he was old enough to better understand death he had already accepted the fact that my grandpa was dead. It is negative because he wasnt able to have as many good memories with my grandpa as we did. In reality one can even ask that if a child can even understand what death means. But the worst thing you can do is lie to the child by telling them that the deceased person is gone for awhile or that they went somewhere else. You should at least explain to them that you wont be able to see that person anymore. So that when they do understand what death is they wont feel lied too.

Death is Bad for your Health

Thinking back to the death of my cousin. I saw that during that time of my life I realized that mourning the death of my cousin took a toll on my personal health. I wasnt sleeping as much ans i had a loss of appetite. That is all I was really thinking about. Granted it was just my cousin. It was hard to swallow that he had actually passed away. But thinking if it were one of my parents or maybe a sibling. Things could have been a lot worse. Knowing that death is hard to cope with at times. One thing that you should always strive to do is make yourself as heathly and happy as possible. Not to let things like death make your own personal health worse. That is were family and friends can become a great help in dealing with it.