Tag: called

I’m 64 and my son got divorced last year and he called me late one night and cried on the phone for twenty minutes — and I realized that was the first time in his adult life he had cried in front of me, and I also realized that I had never cried in front of him, not once, and I understood in that moment that he had probably been waiting thirty years for permission I had never thought to give him, and I started crying too, and we sat on the phone in the dark like two people finally being honest
Psychology says people who randomly cringe at past memories have a level of self-awareness that most people never develop — because the cringe only exists when a person is emotionally intelligent enough to look back at who they were and recognize the distance between that version of themselves and the one standing here now, and that distance is called growth even when it feels like shame
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