Margaret sits in the waiting room, alone with her thoughts. The events of this morning, looping in her mind like a tragic news clip, solely hers to witness.
“Mama! I’m imbisible!”
With less than a second’s consideration she’d responded, “You mean ‘invincible’.”
“Yeah!” said her son, her precious dare-devil, only child, wearing last Halloween’s superman costume, now too small, with torn elbows and shredded knees. “I’m IN-VINCIBLE!” pronounced so carefully.
With a shout he was off again. She was grateful for the opportunity to focus on her work.
Now, guilt infuses her waiting. Five year olds are not invincible.
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8 comments:
It amazes me that children dont have a fear in the world!
ahhh the mother's angst. Yup - Grammas are prey to it as well. Thank goodness for the invincibility of little boys - without it how would we grow? :) Well done.
whoa .. .. - Thanks for the reminder to watch my 5 year old son who thinks that he is inbisable ..... nice job with the word!
Nice job - kids indeed believe they are inbisable.
At that age they are fearless. Wonderful telling.
Very well said...thanks for sharing!!!
Thank you for your comments! It helped that I spent a few days with my 5 year old grandson this week.
My son has averaged 1 ER visit for every year of his life. I'm well versed in the un-invincibility factor! Eeesh.
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