Amarjah's Musing -Myth, Mysticism & Meaning
Our Elders ( May 26, 1925)
"Honor your elders"
Wisdom does not necessarily come with age, but what an honor when it does.
"Happy Birthday," I offered cheerily, but knowing underneath the smile lay the bad gift. Another year older beats the alternative hand, but not always. The frail woman in the hospital bed was alert and coherent for the first time in days. She knew who I was. . . one of her last kin. She smiled weakly and we talked of old times for a few minutes.
I asked pointed but polite questions and she answered them with intelligence and grace. She wanted no extraordinary means to prolong her life...no feeding tubes, no breathing for her, no resuscitation. She wanted to be out of the hospital. However, my mission as her next of kin was to discuss her situation with the hospital personnel - her case manager, the nurse practitioner, the doctor and the social worker. Their recommendations along with mine...were to do the next right thing.
The lady's eyes teared when she was told by her friend, "You can't go home again."
"But it won't be the same," she protested.
I couldn't lie to her. It wouldn't be the same. It would never be the same. She had lost her freedom and mobility and her fate determined by others who shared her ancestors. She was going to become a part of system to deal with the elderly. It is our way of dealing with the unpleasantries of life. With grace, she came to acceptance,
"If that is what the good lord wants for me, then who am I to question?"
| Ordinary World |
I wanted to touch her hand, but she was in too much pain to move it. She had no resentment or questions. There were simply no more alternatives. Her days of living alone were over.
As I visited her apartment to determine what needed to be released and to find the pertinent paper work for the legal documents, I saw her life: neatly folded linens, papers organized, family pictures on the walls that no one would want, keepsakes from loved ones who passed before her, marriages, friends, and family ties. Her family line ended with her as mine does with my death.
Shalom, Mena.
"See you in the magenta world."
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