A GROWN man has been left shaken after learning his mother is a complete person with a life that extends beyond him.
Tom Logan assumed, like all children, that his mother came into existence when he did and that mentions of a time before his birth were just filling in backstory.
But a conversation in which she revealed she had seen Nirvana at Reading in 1992, and photographic evidence of her doing so, shocked him to the core with the realisation she was once actually young and real like him.
Logan said: “The warning signs were all there. I just didn’t see them.
“I guess I could have worked out that she was young in the 90s. I never thought she was actually, like, young young, though. How could she have been, when mine is the first generation to listen to cool music and experiment with drugs?
“But from these photos it’s like she had a whole life outside of our family. Mates, jobs, holidays. Next thing I’ll find out she had dreams outside of being a mum or, even crazier, that she had other boyfriends before she met my dad.
“I wonder what happened to make her a two-dimensional background support player in the lives of others? So sad. It’ll never happen to me.”
