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1/ Reading "The Tail End" of the Wait But Why blog post a decade ago changed my life. Since then I've been even more intentional about my relationship with my parents (very lucky they are both alive and healthy) - started "interviewing" them about many childhood and family details e.g. what was their favorite childhood memory, who were their career mentors, what surprised them when they first became parents, etc. I've heard many stories growing up but this has been enlightening and unlocked a lot for me + made us all closer * there's a deck of conversational cards "Parents Are Human" that provide prompt questions and they support many languages with bilingual cards, my parents opened up more through reading Chinese * we used Storyworth for my mother-in-law which emails her questions each week and compiles all her stories into a physical book * using chatGPT to generate questions has been great
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they're lucky to have such a thoughtful and intentional daughter im sure they appreciate it when I got married I realized I was at roughly the same point in life that my parents were at when my life started and that made me appreciate the whole lives they lived before I knew of them as my parents. and that basically we're riding the same train just at different stops
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Oh wow, that train reference 😭
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