Parenting
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1 day agoI'm 66 and I can pinpoint the exact moment I became truly happy - it was the morning I stopped checking my phone every five minutes waiting for my adult children to need me, and I realized that the quiet I had been interpreting as loneliness was actually the freedom I spent forty years too busy to notice - Silicon Canals
A retired electrician discovers that constant phone-checking stems from lifelong habit of being needed, and finds peace by accepting his adult children's independence and embracing present moments without anticipation.