Don't Leave Me!

Today, I went shopping with my grandma. One of the places we went was Walmart. She wanted to buy a new futon mattress because her old one was mashed down too much and it wasn't comfortable to sit on anymore. During the course of the shopping trip, I managed to lose her. I found out later that we both were looking for one another at the same time and she had even gone so far as to look for me out near the car in the parking lot. We finally found one another and when I saw her, she was just standing at the end of one of the isles tapping her foot and looking irritated. She said "And just where have you been?!" To which I replied "Looking for you!" Then I grabbed ahold of the lady and said "Don't leave me like that!" I'm sure by the looks on several people passing by us, someone thought I was going to abuse this old lady or something....hahaha. I didn't grab her THAT hard....good grief!

For quite a while, during the time we were apart and I couldn't find her, many things ran through my head. My grandma's memory is not good at all alot of the time and as a matter of fact, if she knew I was blogging about this to the world, she might just grab ahold of me alot rougher than I did her!....HA!! I really became a little scared of what would happen if I never did find her. What would I do? I began thinking about how this is a little bit like losing a child in a store. Not exactly the same kind of panic but still a sense of worry. I would rather lose an old person in a store any day than a child! For a short moment I even started to think about how I might feel when my grandma dies. Would I find myself emotionally searching through the isles of my heart and mind looking for the one I had lost? The funny part of the whole thing was the fact that each of us believed that it was the other person's fault for getting lost and not our own. I guess I got that stubborness from someone!

In any case, all is well for the time being and when the time comes for my grandma to leave me on this earth alone, it will all be o.k. in the end. We WILL meet again and we will never forget where we are ever again! OH, how I look forward to THAT day!!