I received my christmas present from my mother-in-law today. I didn't want to open it until Christmas Day but she insisted.
It seemed so important to her that I open it right there, so I did.
In it was a beautiful diamond necklace. In her broken english she explained to me that the three diamonds represented my past, my present and my future.
I told her that I couldn't accept it, that she should wear it or give it to her only granddaughter.
She said, "No, I pick this one just for you and only you."
I couldn't help myself...the tears just started to flow. The feeling of guilt is just so enormous.
She patted my hand and told me that when my father-in-law was alive that she had a hard time with him and how she want to go back to Japan many times. She said that the past is the past, you cannot go back and change things. The present is what it is now. The future is what I make of it.
Hard to make a decision with all this pressure.
