The Adventures of The Caleb

I believe I have mentioned before that I do not like my dad’s wife

I posted on a status update that I will be going to Puerto Rico in x number of days. She jumped on for me to explain. Only times she has ever contacted me is to tell me about something else. But I tried to be nice and explained it was vacation.

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I should have not replied.

I get this long explanation on how she and my dad won’t be having a vacation for a while because they are caring for her mother who has some kind of cancer that can not be treated and they, out of the kindness of their hearts, brought her into their home to care for her with hospices help. But she wanted to make sure to finish it off with “but you have a nice trip.”

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The last time there was such a tragedy for them I didn’t respond the way she thought I should and they didn’t speak to me for a while. It was actually while I was down there visiting and I even heard her say “well he doesn’t show sympathy.” This was in the case of the death of her grandson/my dad’s step grandson and she’s right I didn’t show sympathy. My view of death is much more “open”

  Cancer is tragic I understand this. Watching someone die from cancer is painful. I understand this. Fishing for sympathy and mourners annoys me.

Even when my own grandfather was killed in a tragic car accident, a man more a father to me then anything, my mourning was quick because death is an inevitability. And I do not mourn someone’s death I mourn my very brief mourning period for the fact I will not be in your presence again.

So to fling this at me like some worm on a hook REALLY annoys me.