20 minutes for a lifetime...

My mom just read my capstone paper and I think she felt the "20 minute lifetime" that we have been talking about this whole semester. Our house, the only house that has ever really felt like "home" to me, sold last week, and will close on June 1st. I have had really mixed emotions about the whole thing, but I know its for the best. Because of this, my mom has been going through boxes and storage units to try adn clear everything out. She mentioned how she opened up one box and that her emotions began to jump like crazy! In the box were all the old letters my siblings and I would write to her and my father when we were children, old report cards, pictures.. etc. She has been going through boxes like this for the entire week! And during this entire week, she told me that she has seemed to relive our entire lives in such a short time, and she continues to tell me how much it affects her. When the past is so obvious and is sitting right in front of you, it is hard to escape it. I have been feeling this way about a lot of things lately, which is why I kind of wrote my capstone paper on our past and future, and how those two become hindrances in our lives at times.