Today I was making dinner when my brother came home and asked where our mom was since the car was gone. I didn't realize she had left and never heard anything about it from her. I shrugged it off and figured it was no big deal. However, a couple hours of later it was dark out and she still wasn't home. I found her cell phone in the living room and began to worry. I had awful thoughts about something terrible happening to her. I ended up reading through her texts and began to worry she had gone to meet up with an awful ex-boyfriend of hers. By this point I was extremely scared and worried so I got my brother involved. We spent half an hour trying to figure out what had happened until finally she came home. It turns out she just went to visit a friend but it still caused me a lot of worry.
Usually it's parents worrying about their children but there are many time when the children worry about their parents. It has been a long-running trend in my life of me worrying something has happened to my mom every time she's late coming home. As a child when she went out I couldn't sleep until I knew she had gotten home safely. I know this situation turned out to be nothing but it still seems unfair of her to worry me like that. Just like a child shouldn't cause their parents to worry, parents shouldn't cause their kids to worry. It's easy enough to write a note when you leave or at least remember to take your phone so your kids know you are okay.
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