For heaven's sake!
Biking here to work this morning, it finally came clear to me what I wanted to say in that agonized post I wrote a couple nights ago about dementia not being "an exciting journey".
Simply (and I added this to the post):
IT IS NOT FOR ME TO SAY whether or not dementia is an "exciting journey" (or, similarly, whether or not depression is a "spiritual gift").
People may who live with it may say if it is or not for them, but I don't live with it; I choose to work with people with dementia, and Activities is on the more "exciting" side.
The way I see it, we may experience or create good or exciting things in the face of suffering and disease, but suffering and disease are not in themselves Good.
I guess I'll leave up what I originally wrote, with this added, to show the evolution of my thinking, though I would say it differently now.
Biking here to work this morning, it finally came clear to me what I wanted to say in that agonized post I wrote a couple nights ago about dementia not being "an exciting journey".
Simply (and I added this to the post):
IT IS NOT FOR ME TO SAY whether or not dementia is an "exciting journey" (or, similarly, whether or not depression is a "spiritual gift").
People may who live with it may say if it is or not for them, but I don't live with it; I choose to work with people with dementia, and Activities is on the more "exciting" side.
The way I see it, we may experience or create good or exciting things in the face of suffering and disease, but suffering and disease are not in themselves Good.
I guess I'll leave up what I originally wrote, with this added, to show the evolution of my thinking, though I would say it differently now.