John Travolta wants to give everyone a piece of advice. He says that you should spend time with your parents while you have them and that parents should spend time with their children. The superstar adds that at any time, you can look up from your phone and they will be gone. One thing he has learned, he says, is that you should live and love every single day like it’s your last, because one day, it will be just that. Parenthood is one of the deepest joys that life has to offer. It certainly has its ups and downs, but no one who is a parent would trade anything for it.
You get to watch your babies take their first step, hold their hands when they shed their first tears of heartbreak, and if you’re lucky, live to watch them grow up and find their own kinds of happiness. However, sometimes it doesn’t work out that way. John Travolta and his now late wife, Kelly Preston, went through an experience that is every parent’s worst nightmare when they lost their beloved 16-year-old son, Jett. Jett was autistic, and when the family was on vacation, Jett has a seizure and died when he fell and hit his head on a bathtub in 2009. 10 years after his son’s death, Travolta explained what it meant to him.
Taking to Facebook, Travolta shared a touching message about he and his wife were coping with the loss of their sweet son. He said that when you lose someone you raised and watched grow, someone you taught how to walk and talk, die before your eyes, it changes everything about you. He said that the 16 years he was Jett’s father taught him how to love unconditionally. He encouraged all parents to stop and be thankful for their children. In an interview with Us Weekly, Travolta said that it was the worst thing that’s ever happened to him in his life.
He said that he was even unsure if he was going to make it through it and part of what sustained him was his religion. At one point, he even considered retiring, and many people would have. Travolta’s wife Kelly died last year after a long and courageous battle with cancer.