A dream in a dream

One night, I had a dream that felt so real when I was in another dream. So interesting.

Did you have had a dream in a dream experience before??

The dream was about me in my home before I got married, my parents were at home, doing normal home stuff, which actually means that Dad would be sitting on the sofa all day to read newspapers while Mum will be blasting her radio/tv/karaoke music while she prepares food in the kitchen/trimming her potted plants.

It was a very normal "scene" at home, while I retreat to my room, chatting away online or going crazy writing thesis/paper etc.

So I was watching all this happen and then in another scene, someone asked me who was home. I replied my parents lor.

The person's response shocked me!

He said, how can your Dad be home? He's dead already.

I could hardly believe what he said.

I JUST saw my DAD, how can he be dead??

Then I "woke up" from my dream and realised that yah, that person was right. My Dad is no longer around.

A sad, tangy feeling shot through my body and I cannot control myself but broke down in tears (still in my dream). Memories of what happened last year around this time of the year came flooding back. How times fly, its almost a year yet it still feels like yesterday. The shock, the preparations, the reluctant acceptance.

It was definitely heartbreaking to be cremating Dad on Father's Day. And we were only two months away from his birthday, during which, we would have taken a proper family photo together, one which we would blow up and hang on the wall. Now, there's no way to fill that void left behind by his departure. And we'll always have a missing photo in our home.

My friends, treasure your parents while they are around, no matter what happens, they are still our parents, we cannot chose them. They are our responsibility whether we like it or not.