Personal Narrative: Elderly Vs. Other People

town. They ran a restaurant together and watched it grow and prosper. He died of a brain aneurism and she was heartbroken because it was unexpected and they had two small children.
About four years later, my grandma had met a man at her restaurant. At first they were just friends, but eventually they got married. When my father heard they were getting married he was not happy. He loved this man like his father, but he felt like he was betraying his biological father. My grandma’s second husband was like my dad’s father because he was so young when he met him and he had helped to practically raise him. My grandma and her second husband were probably married around 20 years when they found out he was diagnosed with cancer. This was very hard for everyone. He passed away shortly after. My grandma was not looking to get married again, but she met someone else when she was in her seventies and they got married. He was …show more content…
I do not think that one is better than the other; I just think that everyone is different and everyone has their preference. Some people do not want to replace their memories and others see it as not replacing memories just making more memories with other people. I think that elderly people just need to do what makes them happy and not worry about anyone else. They need to focus on themselves. “If you only have your spouse to rely on and something happens to him, then you’ll be lost” (Moon 2012). Many people focus on one thing whether it is their family, career, or social life. It is important to not only focus on one thing, but to focus on everything so that if you lose one of those things you are not lost because you still have the other things to fall back on. I often find myself focusing on one thing at a time, but I need to remember to focus on more than that one thing because when it is taken away from me I am going to be extremely lost and not know what to