– What is it? – I asked at the time.
And they answered:
– You know… She sits all day and looks out the window… And looks… And looks… She’s completely lost it. We’re the ones having fun there, but she’s homesick. We’ll lose her! We won’t forgive ourselves later.
That’s what they said when they took her away. They said she’d be lost, they wouldn’t forgive themselves…
But she put up with it and went. She thought she’d see them there more often… Her grandchildren.
But no! They work from morning till night, then they go for a walk… They only come home to take a shower and sleep.
What about grandma? Granny will wait.
So she waited. Sat quietly by the window and waited. For death. Her own. Grandma got bored living there. She did not like talking on the phone, she did not like television, there was no garden on the fourteenth floor of her apartment building, there were no pets either… A misfortune, in general…
Oh, and at home – at home! The neighbors crowded together, could not get enough of talking till dawn! The work boiled up – all the weeds must be weeded and the neighbors need a puppy – to grow and protect the house! They also brought a young goat – they say they have an extra one. So there will be milk, sour cream, cottage cheese… Grandma is alive! More than twenty years have passed, and she’s still running – she’s got things to do! Business. No time to think about death.
Indeed…
