Just to add further on Awakenings, the conclusion if there is any, seems to be that the patients live longer and are able to overcome their crippling disabilities at least partly or occasionally, if there is something they can hold on to in life. And care is not necessarily love and they can perceive that too. So many a times in their case, family may not be that someone - sheer monotony of it, unspoken but daily-felt contempt, too much 'understanding' of the patient's needs - but something entirely new. Little soul-searching I did myself.
SM had a baby and seems to have exploded on the FB stage. I had lost touch with her for some time now which got renewed after she became my 'friend' . She said nobody was living in her house now - both her parents are no more - and I felt it a pity. It was and still is one of the best houses I have seen and it's part of my good childhood memories. It was everything that my old house wasn't - well-lit, spacious and elegant. And may be, her mother was also different from my own - she seemed to have the best of tempers and she and SM were like sisters in their interactions. I seemed to have only one advantage - Pappa - one who came home for lunch everyday to listen to my school-stories and one whose pleasant voice would float through the radio and people would recognise it and tell me excitedly about it ...
It's been 10 years now since Pappa had a heart-attack and he's leading a most active life, some times much more active than my mother wants it to be. But we still get subdued whenever there is a mention of the word in some context.
SM had a baby and seems to have exploded on the FB stage. I had lost touch with her for some time now which got renewed after she became my 'friend' . She said nobody was living in her house now - both her parents are no more - and I felt it a pity. It was and still is one of the best houses I have seen and it's part of my good childhood memories. It was everything that my old house wasn't - well-lit, spacious and elegant. And may be, her mother was also different from my own - she seemed to have the best of tempers and she and SM were like sisters in their interactions. I seemed to have only one advantage - Pappa - one who came home for lunch everyday to listen to my school-stories and one whose pleasant voice would float through the radio and people would recognise it and tell me excitedly about it ...
It's been 10 years now since Pappa had a heart-attack and he's leading a most active life, some times much more active than my mother wants it to be. But we still get subdued whenever there is a mention of the word in some context.
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