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How many of you have gone through this experience ? Was it really difficult that last day when you had to lock the front door for the last time and walk away from the house you grew up in ? Maybe you didn't do it and got someone else to do it because it was just too painful to bear. My cousins who lived next door did it 2 years ago and since that fateful day they walked away , they've never returned. they find it difficult to even visit us now for Christmas or Chinese New Year. They have not even driven past since leaving the place. The old house is gone and in its place are two rows of terrace houses. We used to have lovely garden parties and barbecues there. My family home next door is one of 3 remaining old houses along that road. My brother , his family and my 88 year old mother live there. We're thinking of putting up the property for sale and now come face to face with the "trauma" of letting go of a piece of our lives. I used to laugh at how my cousins could not or would not even drive past their house once it was sold. I now understand why. I don;t think I'd be able to drive past too and not see the old house standing there. I have so many memories growing up there. Many of our neighbours have left; their houses long gone and replaced by tiny little terraced houses. I;'m not even sure I could be the one to close and lock the door for the very last time. I know it won;t be my mother because I think I'll spare her that experience.
