I feel like life has changed, deeply and irrevocably. I acknowledge this could be personal to me, on account of my husband being ill. I can't say for sure, but I don't think it is, or rather, it's additional.  Like the change has occurred and my husband is  diagnosed in the new world or situation or time frame.

I have been thinking about this awhile and it's been really productive.  For example, I know we're not going back to anything I would consider normal. I know I am essentially irrelevant, meaning the world belongs to the younger people.

I also realize their world is not my world. They have to live in their world and they're better equipped for it than I am. 

I feel the "brick by brick" work is essentially done. I don't like the containment, but this is my major point - it's not built for me, but for the people coming up, who are different than I am.

I see I have to let my kids go, to grapple with their lives and figure it out as they go along.

Looking in the opposite direction, I better understand, people who went before me.  Maybe they tried to tell me or maybe they didn't. I understand either way.  Flip a coin!

Do you have a similar sense?