Question

What could cause a man to be happy and at same time be sad?

Answer 1

My mother was very ill at the end of her life and although she clung on until the very end she suffered in many ways both mentally and physically. It was hard to watch her like that and even though I was sad when she died I was so happy that she was not in pain any more. She had no quality of life in those last months. Another instance was when my granddaughter left primary school. I went to her leaver's assembly and cried buckets along with her teachers  even though it was a happy occasion as it meant she is growing up and moving on but  she was also leaving her infancy behind and those early years are so precious. They showed all the achievements of the children and how far they had come while they had been there.  We cannot stop the passage of time, change is important and although looking into the future can be exciting it is also daunting too.