Missing My Grandparents

I miss my grandparents from india!?

write them letters, emails, chat online, call them up! Grandparents are wonderful people and not everyone has a chance to know and love theirs... I'm sure they will be very happy to keep in touch with you constantly throughout the year.

It can be sad when you miss your family, but that is why keeping in touch helps... hearing their voice helps... telling them how you feel helps. Try to cheer up and write your grandparents a nice letter :)

I miss my grandparents so much?

I see where you're coming from.
My parents are immigrants to the US, so my entire other family lives back in our home country in Europe. I get to spend about two months every summer visiting. Other than that, I speak to them on Skype a couple times a week.
My grandpa died before I was born, so I can't miss him, but I miss the chance to get to know him.
My other grandpa died in 2009. We all knew that he was going to die sooner than he should have, but his death was very sudden, because he seemed so well when I saw him just a month or two before he died.
I am the oldest minor in the family, and I have two cousins. Only my elder cousin was allowed to attend the funeral because of the way his younger brother had behaved at his other grandpa's funeral -- which had been just before our shared grandfather's.
This has been terribly hard on both of my grandmas, my parents, me (because I had known my grandpa the longest out of the kids), and my elder cousin (because he had to attend two funerals in short succession and was close to my grandpa geographically and emotionally).
This summer, my cuz and I shared a hotel room, and on the first night, we talked until midnight -- four hours. One subject was our grandparents, and our experiences. I had never sen him so serious. He's the goofiest kid I know. Death is really such a heartbreaking thing.
But we will meet again -- and I will have the chance to meet my other grandfather some day, just like you will get to see your grandparents. It really is a comforting thought. Just a few more years.
The only thing that saddens me is my brother. He's younger than me, and I don't think he remembers our grandpa very much, and this just breaks my heart. Before he died, I went on short walks with him (his leg hurt terribly and he used a cane) but Eric never did. Sure, they had their own quality time, and maybe I am wrong to judge, but I don't think that he... Remembers, at least not like I do.
So remember, your grandparents aren't gone forever. They're just sort of on vacation, and they're waiting for you to come join them. But there're things to be done, place to see, people to meet, and adventures to be had before you can come. They'll wait.
This is what I know.

I'm afraid of my grandparents dying and I can't stop missing them... What can I do?!?

Hey :)

I know how you must feel, I went through the same thing around 7 when my grandmother, who might as well have been a second mother, went to the hospital for the first time. Before this I always spent time with her, not even realizing what I had because I was so young and had not even brought my attention to the big Mortality question everybody experiences. When she was sent to the hospital for some liver related disease, I was so confused and scared that I actually cried when I saw her pulled into an ambulance. She was there for quite a while and I slowly noticed the many things that were missing while she was gone and I only missed her more.

Finally she was released from the hospital and I never asked much about the situation because it was such a delicate subject that I don't remember how they diagnosed her or anything. All I knew was that she was home and that we could stay together forever.

Next time she was sent to the hospital, everything was more grave and within a few weeks I was hearing talk about death among my family members. This is where I got to thinking...

The big mortality question hit me, that not everything is forever, that my grandmother would die, my parents would die, and I would die someday too. Those thoughts came with such an awful feeling of emptiness like if there was a hole right through your body. I think it was I loved my grandmother so much that her death stuck out from the others like my pets or distant relatives. Maybe you need to come to grasps with the mortality of the people around you and maybe your own?

Well there is no stopping the grief that comes with death. I cried my eyes out and didn't play video games for a couple months I was so sad. But my mother gave me a rosary that my grandmother loved and always used because she was heavily religious. I don't use it the same way but it's how I remember her. I know she's there for me when I hold it. Maybe you can find something special of your grandparents that you can embrace because even though no life will last forever, your feelings and those bonds will last just as long. They shouldn't be bad ones, cheer up, let them know you love them and vice versa. I'm sorry for your grief, I hope you can get through it.

Were you raised by your grandparents?

And if so, do you think it worked out better for you than if your parents would have? Do you always feel like you're missing that family feeling that other people have? And how do you feel you turned out from being raised by them? And if your parents are in your life now, how do you feel about them?

Don't get me wrong, I am really grateful that my grandparents have raised me, but I get the feeling that I'm always missing out on something.

My father went to jail when I was born and my mother abandoned me when I was 2 and my brother was 5 to move to California. My grandfather and my step-grandmother have legal custody of me.
I think I've turned out as a very decent person as my grandfather is a really good role model and has always been there to help me. My step-grandmother and I fight a lot though, I feel like she doesn't really like the fact that we changed her plans of getting older. But I am pretty spoiled because mainly that's what grandparents do, but by no means am I attention-starved like some grandchildren are.

My father, who was released from prison when I was 7 I've seen a total of 4 times in my life. I've always felt weird around him and don't make any effort to see him. He has a long-time girlfriend who had 2 children and now they have a child of their own. For some reason I don't feel like I can forgive him because he basically led to my family being so torn up.
My mother moved back here when I was 6 and now lives 30 minutes from me. While in California she had another child who lives with his father. As awkward as it is with my mom, I love her a lot and I forgive her for what she did. I see her maybe once or twice a year, if that.

I've never met either of my 2 half-brothers and I still live with my grandparents as I am only 16.

Sorry for this being so long, I just like some input of other people who were in similar situations as I know no one else who was raised by grandparents and know how I feel about these things.