I spent most of my working life abroad. The money was good, but at the same time I longed to be away from my children and family. At such moments, I told myself that I was only here for them, I had to provide them with housing, no one but me would take care of it.
In recent years it was getting harder and harder to work, the years and hard work throughout my life were taking their toll. I began to think about going home. My children had their own place to live for a long time, now I could think about having an apartment of my own. I decided to work the last year, to collect my own money for repairs, and then retire.
Returning home was a joy, for so many years I missed my native spaces. She started to make repairs on the money she earned – her apartment had fallen into decay over the years without her mistress and required serious investment.
She was at home already, but her children did not visit, and they did not call often, they had their own life. Finally the eldest son invited the whole family to visit. I was happy, I hugged and kissed my children, I was glad that even though I hadn’t seen them grow up, they were all happy and fulfilled now.
We talked for a long time, they told me about their lives and asked me about abroad. In the evening I was going home, but the children asked to stay, though not for a family night. Conversation with the hints began daughter – she studied the last year, and then wants to open a salon. Money to start a business, of course, no, so she decided to ask if I will go another year to earn money.
The limit of my surprise was not, but I tried to calmly, without emotion to explain that my age and my health does not allow such a trip. And then there was the horror. Children, it turned out, and live fine without me, and earned my money want to see more than me. My family took my refusal painfully, they called even less frequently and mostly to ask for money or to ask if I had changed my mind about going to work. Then they asked me to give them what I had earned for myself and put aside for my life, and they were not at all interested in how I would be without a penny.
