Another personal note

As a quick follow-up to my previous posting, I want to add a brief thought. I am happy to help my parents. I am happy if, for example, I find a film I know which they enjoy. And, when I see my mother or father laugh, that makes me feel good. I am happy to think that by being here I make their life better.

But the price of helping my parents is that I cannot live my own life.

And, I have two sisters. So, it seems unfair that the burden has almost wholly fallen on my shoulders. My sister can continue to live with the love of her dogs, while I must purse a life empty of the friendships I enjoyed in Bratislava and Vienna---and I have lost those friendships because she needs the affection of her pets.