u/j0n3s_Raider

I know they are very low and nearly non-existent but I am holding out for hope, Does anyone else feel this way?

I'm posting this here because I don't know where else to talk about this, I just put in discussion and this was the first thing that came up. I think I've always wondered about this, I, myself am thankful to have both of my parents in my life, but I never really actually knew them not really, some time ago I discovered my mother had a brother I never knew about, It was bizarre for me learning this because I grew up knowing all my uncles, a year before that I learned my father was married three other times before my mother, It was in these moments. It made me question. Do I really "know" my parents, I know some will say this doesn't really qualify as me not knowing them but it's not just that, I could have gone my whole life without knowing these details about their lives, eventually I started thinking about other people, Pete Davidson is the first person that comes to mind, his father died tragically on 9/11 when he was 7 years old, he only had 7 years to know his father, anything he learned about him had to be told after his passing and by his family. Paris Jackson (daughter of Michael Jackson) said she only knew her father for 9 years, she was 11 years old when he died. Then there are others where they just weren't around. Stuff like this just makes me think, What is it like not knowing your parents, not knowing who they were or who they were before you were born or even when you or them are still around, but there are people out there who will never know, there was one person I met who told me their parents died when they were 10, and they had no living relatives or anyone to take them in, so they had to be put into the Foster system, They grew up without knowing who their parents was who their family was. Does anyone else have these types of thoughts?