Mother used to tell me she enjoyed things unknown and new everyday when she was suffering from dementia in her elderly. I thought it had been due to her cognitive and memorizing problem that she felt that way.
Recenetly, being at her age those days myself, I feel things, either I have known before or not, look quite new to me. For example, as written in the prvious posts, Faure's nocturnes have come closer to my mind. I used to listen to them not too few times in the past but have not been impressed by them so much as I recently have. Commonplace things approach my mind with quite different and brilliant outlook. Sometimes with quit new meanings and, on the other occasions, in deepened and enriched way.
I have been wondering why. I might be on the process of dementia myself. On the other hand, since I am living the age when shorter time span is left in my life, things or experiences could approach me in different way from that in young days. Getting older, we lose physical and mental capability. Elderly is often regarded as a negative phase of our lives. However, if we could experience things in a quite different way as described, elderly could be a time of life with gift. As a poet said, the best thing in life is left in our elderly.
In 12 days, it will be my mother's 14th anniversary. May I go after her being pleased at everything, always worrying on friends and family members and being thankful to people aroound her.
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