As a young person it is easy to take for granted your parents' health and see old age and death only as as some remote future possibility, instead of the relent

As a young person it is easy to take for granted your parents' health and see old age and death only as as some remote future possibility, instead of the relentless proximity that it is. I wish I had traveled home more often. Then again, work left me with very little energy left and the only times I took an airplane was to visit my aging family. So maybe there wasn't much I could have done.