Personal Reflection on Aging the Savages Movie

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Coming to terms with aging parents is no small feat. There are many emotions, thoughts, and considerations involved; along with coming to terms with the facts at hand. However, if we are all unlucky enough, we will have to confront this very difficult and painstaking task, properly handle and manifest the activities involved, and then sufficiently recover in order to move forward with our own lives. I suppose it is sort of reassuring to know that when a parent, who is less than capable of caring for their self and faces this uncertain truth of fact, then would be placed in your care and this task would be left to the sole discretion of all surviving offspring. I mean, I would not want these decisions left up to anybody else, and I most certainly would want my voice to be heard on all matters involved. On the other hand, there are several matters that have to be sorted out and in a large family like mine, this could prove very time consuming and require a lot of diligence- which you will not have. My family is very close, and not only would we have to come together for this unfortunate reason, but during this trying and emotional time, we would also have to make very sudden and definitive decisions that could be difficult to change at a later date, and we must all have to agree on them- that will be difficult. There would be so many mixed emotions about the whole scenario. I cannot imagine what it would be like to have to switch roles with a parent, as a middle-aged child who is now their sole caregiver. I consider myself to be close to middle-age now and I have a budding-new family. My children, three, are all under the age of five and my siblings are at the age of procreating. Understanding the time constraints and diligence required to make something as big as this happen as soon as it needs to will be a task in and of itself. Life imposes some many different

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