All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others c… - Mitch Albom

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers.

I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.
But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

You don't miss things. You miss people.