! An Ardent Wish For Others

How ardently, now, I wish for others what I –alas too late – wish - would have wished - for my own self, and maybe, for my parents too: some time in life – it would depend on you – but not too late, too late – to sit down together - each parent, each child, individually – and maybe with a few days ‘thinking time’ beforehand - and say – you could take this in turns – ‘Ask me all the questions which you never, until now, thought to ask... ask me all the questions which you never liked or dared to ask... and I shall answer you…’ and if it goes well (as I pray it will) you might even incorporate this into a yearly family occasion: done with humour and with love; this is what I wish for you as ardently as I would have wished it for myself; for this is my regret, for myself; and perhaps, for them..