I like reading letters just like that. Thankyou @Doldip15 I don't know how old you are but your words take me back to a few months I worked in age care, Dementia. Yes . . I know, I see mouths agape and brows a crossed. They let a mind as warped as mine near comparatively normal people.
Rn / manager of nursing at TAFE got me past the vetting process and into a job that few were
fit for, but I was born for. My teacher would have called it the grief loss and acceptance place.
I called it the 'left it too late place' but thats a different argument. It was a puzzle factory where the fantasies of dreams unfulfilled finally could be realized, 'over n over' . A place demons fulfilled their desires, over and over too. My role, was an actor in their fantasies. Pick up the jist of the visions and try to guide them to happier conclusions. Under the watchful eye of a cutting edge D.O.N, I was fortunate to be afforded the time to do that.
Think your garden is a better option, but then I'll never really know the extent of the gardens in the minds of the locked dementia ward. Mine have no fences.
Their is a beautiful movie called 'No mans land' that far better offers the solutions to loneliness that I,
every now and then suggest. It won all sorts of awards. Loneliness does have a nemesis.
But much must be given, for much to be gained. The first family I ever had, lived in an eclectic
menagerie of tiny homes on wheels. We had nothing, yet everything.
People don't like change so no one ever takes my advice, but I can promise you because I did make
changes. There is a family out there, waiting with open arms to be met halfway.
But you may have to give up everything you know to effect change.
And so I wonder. We all know how to end loneliness. We just are not feeling enough pain to get up and leave all our meaningless objects behind.
I remember camping at Mission Beach once. There was a bus propped up on blocks of wood n concrete. Wheels had rusted off. Over damper and wine they told me someone drove their bus there. They were to old to do it back then, and they had been there 17 years.! I stayed a month.
There was not a single evening that the dozen assorted chairs outside that bus were not filled with
friendship and laughter.
We do what we must to make change and overcome loneliness. So long as we do . . . Something.!
Even if it means our broken buses have to get towed kicking and screaming, there. . .
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@SmilingGecko @Tilz @Adge @Historylover @ENKELI @greenpea @StuF @Lila3
@saturnzoon @EternalFlower n @Jynx and all..
Have a sparkling day everyone. Back tomorrow. tonys..
