“Dementia, in a weird and somehow paralleled way, is a huge metaphor for life. The cryptic lessons that dementia taught you bring you back to the most basic building blocks of humanity. Life is messy and hard and nonsensical, but love is the only thing that makes sense of it all.”Tagged: Dementia, Losing Your Memory, Objective Reallity, Reality, Life
“For your whole life, you have lived in a world that praised objective reality. Something is or something is not. But, when dementia knocks on the door of someone you love, you learn that subjectivity often wins. You don’t lie to that person, but you don’t always knock down their perceptions of…”Tagged: Dementia, Losing Your Memory, Objective Reallity, Reality