Gina’s mom is a loving mom.  She loves to strike a conversation with her kids.  When Gina comes home from work she would usually ask her if she had eaten.  Or would ask her about how was work and how’s her family doing.  However, when her mom was about to turn 60 years old, her mom started to ask a question again after fifteen minutes she have asked it.  Thinking that this was just because of old age, a conversation would usually end up in a quarrel because her mom would ask the same question over and over again.  Then it became worse.  Her mom would usually leave the house driving a car and will arrive home in a taxi.  When they ask her where the car is, her normal reply would be, what car?  Good thing they’ll find it in the parking lot where she left it.  Then Gina had another argument with her mom because she was asked the same question a dozen times.  It was the worst argument that they ever had.  But after that conversation Gina never had any conversation with her mom for her mom can no longer recognize her or any person in the household.  It turned out, her mom has alzheimer.  And asking questions over and over again was already the indicator that her sickness was progressing.  Now, Gina can no longer strike up a conversation with her mom.  Because everytime that she wants to talk to her, her mom will just look at her blankly.  There will be times that she will remember Gina’s kids or her husband but never her own daughter.  Never Gina.  Until the day that her mom died, her mom never remembered her.

So when was the last time that you talked to the people that you love?  When was the last time that you apologized to the people whom you have had arguments with?  When was the last time that you answered patiently when your mom asked you the same question over and over again?