Don't Make My Mistake

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What people learned about family & parenting

Observations aggregated from 1 mistakes submitted to this archive. Not research — just what people told us it cost them.

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The lessons

  1. Nobody has ever regretted the drive. Put the visits in the calendar like meetings, because everything else already is.

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The mistakes behind them

I did not visit my father in his last two years

🇫🇷 France · 👨‍👩‍👧 Family & Parenting · 40-49

What happened

He lived three hours away. I was always busy, always planning to go "next month". He died in March. I had seen him four times that year.

Time lost2 yearsEmotional costPermanent

What I learned

Nobody has ever regretted the drive. Put the visits in the calendar like meetings, because everything else already is.

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