I was traveling through the airport with my adult kids, just walking along and talking like we normally do.

Making comments, pointing things out, saying random little things as we moved through the airport together.

Very normal. Very casual.

At least I thought it was.

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At some point I turned around mid-conversation to add another comment… and realized I was completely alone.

Just me. Walking. Talking. No one responding. No one there.

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For a second, I just kept walking while trying to process how I had apparently been mid-family conversation by myself.

I looked behind me expecting them to just be a few steps back.

Nothing.

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Then I finally spotted them—completely stopped at a store, casually looking at something, like the group walk had simply ended without informing me.

Meanwhile, I had just kept going like we were still in motion together.

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I just turned around and walked back like nothing had happened.

Because at a certain point, there’s nothing else to do but accept that traveling with adult kids sometimes means you are no longer actually traveling together at the same pace.

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