My friend came over here for a company event. So I went over to his hotel after work... We went to the hotel bar and were invited to join his company directors for drinks.
Anyway, the two directors were from overseas... Here they were, working in a different country... and I was feeling sorry for myself for working in another state...
We started talking about leaving family behind. One of the guys just came back from a holiday, where he went home to celebrate his mother's birthday... His mother is around 90... My friend asked him if he ever regretted taking a job in another country... after all, his mother is old, and he might not be there if anything were to happen...
He said something very interesting. Even if he was back home in Germany (might as well tell you guys where the directors were from... so if you still have not figured out where I'm from, then you can cross Germany from the list), he would not be spending every single moment of his life with his mother... he would be at work... and go home to his house... not his mother's... so in other words, he won't be there when she 'goes'... So it doesn't make a difference now, does it? He would just attend her funeral... same thing if he was overseas... he would fly back for the funeral...
What's he's basically saying is that, you can't put your life on hold for other people... you have to live it, wherever it takes you... of course family is important... but you can't have whole families staying with each other every single day...
Imagine living in a house with your spouse and children... your parents, your in-laws, your uncles and aunts, their families, etc... plus nobody works... would be a strange sight...
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