AN ENIGMATIC AND POIGNANT JOURNEY AROUND MY AGEING AND EVOLVING MOTHER! PART 131.

 

A sense of independence and of wanting to do things for yourself and to your standard or expectation, even when you are no longer capable of carrying out such tasks as you were once able to do. 

And so it soon becomes a matter of having 'to let go.' Of having no only to experience the pain, even if  sometimes joyful pain.  

Of 'letting go of our children', as they become more independent, as they acquire the skills, the knowledge, the age and understanding and maturity to enable them to leave home and branch out on their own 'journey of life.' 

But now, as one approaches the end of the road, as it could be termed, a person moving towards the void, must also increasingly 'let go' of the things they have and had control over. 

Of their independence, of their way of doing things, of their established ways of thinking, of their daily routines. 

These, then, are some of the major challenges that my dear mother is confronted with.  As are others at or approaching the same stage of their life's journey.

It might, of course, be the case that, as one as us humans dive or are pushed by fate into the stream of having to let go, we might, after and if we are able to accommodate and even assimilate it, it becomes easier. 

Or we tend to 'give up and not fight against it.' But it is difficult to know with any certainty, as we are all capable of experiencing the same event, differently.

And how is your dear mother, at present, I seem to or imagine you might be thinking or wondering? 

To be continued!