Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30 day trial at audible.co.uk-wondery. That's audible.co.uk-wondery. Hey everybody and welcome back to another episode of your favorite I'd see you guys. We definitely have different intros. What do you mean? You say, hey everybody. And everybody, what's up, you guys? Sometimes I say, what's up, you guys? Really? Yeah. I feel like more often than that, I can recall you saying, hey everybody. Yeah, I probably do say it more, but yeah. Yeah. I like that. I just had like a realization that we have different ways to intro the episode. Okay. So you guys, one of our most viral reels was us talking about parenting our parents. You remember that? I do. I do. Yeah. And I feel like we haven't talked about parenting our parents since then or what it's like to be at this age and have a relationship with our parents. Mm-hmm. And I feel like our listeners and viewers would really like it if we talked about it. Because everybody's not talking about what it's like being, you know, your parents' parent. Yeah. And or caretaker. Yeah, it is, well, one is a blessing because we are getting to that age, not to say they didn't happen earlier for some people where people, parents getting about here. Yeah. So one is a blessing at 30 something to have both of your parents. Um, so I think of that often, I don't know, it's like the older you get, I wanna say I'm more aware.

I think I'm more aware.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm way more aware. So I'm always just like, at any moment. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. So anyways, we can talk about that. But I know there's something I think about because my parents are getting older. Yeah. It's an unfortunate reality.

I feel like in my mind,

I feel like I definitely think about it more often than not, but I try not to think about it because I don't want it to happen. If I just think that my parents are perpetually young, they're just forever young, then they're gonna just be here. And if I don't treat them like they could leave it any moment, then they'll still be available. Cause I kid you not before my grandfather passed, I would not go visit them. You know, I was house my grandpa on the phone every night again. And if my mom picked him up to bring him to the house for like a little bit, a couple days, whatever. But I didn't go by and see my grandpa.

I didn't.

And there was one day where I left work

and I was like, let me go to my grandpa's house.

I don't do that.

Like I just don't.

And that alone shoulda let me know.

He passed shortly thereafter.

And I went by to see, he was so happy that I went to see him. I mean, like happy. He was laying in his bed. I was just talking to him messing with him like I always do. He raised his age so that he could go to the army. So I would always ask him, oh, how old are you? Now, you don't know how old you are because they said that you raised your age. So you forgot him. You know, just mess with him. And then I I would be like Okay, so you let's just say 89 right now. Okay, so you'll be night. He's like no, I'm 89 right now and that doesn't mean that I it we had a whole little thing going and Confirmation bias, you know, whatever I'm just like if I wouldn't have gone by to see him, then what? Would he still pass it the time he did? Because it was so out of the ordinary for me that like physically go visit him. I feel like that was absolutely Holy Spirit's nudging and like, because I have now that last experience with him, it's just very weird. And I think for me and my mom,

because it happens to my grandpa, I'm like, I'm not gonna treat my parents like they could not be here at any moment. You know, you get what I say? Yeah, I get what you're saying. I guess I just do the exact opposite because of it. Like we have two different reactions to the reality. So yeah, and then I don't know. It's just, it's such a blessing to have your parents

and watch them get older.

It's also just such a different experience. Like I am blessed that both of my parents are 70 plus, but they're very active as active as they can be. Like they still drive. They still do things that you know, but I just look at them sometimes like, man my parents are older and that is crazy Yeah, it's just crazy to watch and you feel like that responsibility for them For sure because I feel bad for Like we were talking about before it does make me feel bad to know how quickly the world is evolving Yeah how much it leaves our seniors behind. Yeah. And I think often about those seniors who don't have a need who they're just by themselves who, you know, and how, of course they're surviving, but also there's just so much that they probably can't even just comprehend because it's just so 180 from what they grew up with and how the world was when they were that it's like, man, it's crazy. Like I remember, of course, my grandmother, she was in a nursing home for the last few years before she passed, but like I literally remember up until maybe like, I don't know, right? But maybe like 2016, 17, she was still go pay her bills by hand at the bank. Forget that you can mail it. Forget that you can get on the computer. Forget that you can call them. My aunt would have to go pick her up because she's going to go pay her bills at the bank. Right. You know what I'm saying? So it's just little things like that where it's like, you can push two buttons and pay

your bills.

But somebody who didn't grow up like that and it's just older is like, the world is leaving

them behind.

And you know what's so funny?

While I'm at work, there are so many older people who come in.

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