Dear Margi,
I went on the Care to Travel Facebook page and noticed your
blog. Started to read it and felt most depressed.
I hear your sentiments, understand your frustrations......
Because your voice is my voice.
Selling your house - that was letting go of the one thing
you had that belonged to you, a foundation, a root, like a plant; once you pull
it out it dies and that is how I feel, dead.
I sympathise, I understand the loneliness. I respect the
vulnerable side of the elderly, but does that mean I must die inside to give
further life.
The more I think on this the more I realise it's not the
job, it's living their life, it's giving of yourself and losing who you are.
Where we give hope and enlightenment, we lose who we were once upon a time.
My self identity seems to have got lost in transit
It's finding that happy medium
It's making sure that our lives do not sail away, where one
day we awake to find we need a Carer, so in actual fact our life just carries
on from where it left off... With a client
In life we have got to learn we were all put on this earth
for a reason. We all have a certain time given to us. They have had their time,
do we have to throw away ours?
That is how I am starting to look at what I am doing , and
right at this moment, I do not believe this was the life carved out for me!
We all need a foundation, we all need roots, we all need to
embrace life, and not death that will come one day and maybe sooner than we
expect.
Care life can be rewarding but we must not become a prisoner
of our own emotions.
Thank you to Lorraine for this response to my
"Independent and free, or homeless" post. It does help to know that
we all have our ups and downs and doubts about our current way of life.
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