ENTRY DILEMMA
SACRIFICE · THE PARENTS
You are offered a significant career opportunity — the kind that comes once in a life. It requires relocating permanently to another country. Your parents are aging and beginning to need support. They tell you to go. You know they mean it but you also know what it will cost them. What do you do?
I go. My parents said go and they mean it. Staying out of guilt helps no one. I take the role, build resources to support them from a distance, and visit often. The right answer is not proximity. Distance is not abandonment.