Extended vacations

Thoughts on that very night...
"I sit here thinking about how she has influenced me and how she has always watched out for me, and yet, why is it that at that time, i could not see that it was her love that was trying to speak out so loudly?
I wondered at my own reactions and now i regret how i have behaved. I'm sorry for getting frustrated when i should have realised what was going on... Sometimes it really got trying but i needed to realise you were still who you are. I see now that sometimes we don't need to be giving to show love to others, sometimes even just receiving and allowing others to give is doing that very same thing.
Can you hear me? Your hand feels awfully cold at this hour.. your eyes look up at the cieling but are they just looking up? Do you see dad and grand-dad?
Everybreath you take now seems as if you want to say something that you have lost the strength to say...each laboured breath you take follows with a small frail groan...
At least now you can't feel the pain anymore... And yes... now i do see... you do see dad and grandad...22nd May 2008 2.38am"

Extended vacations are becoming so common within these last 5 years....