I just came back from a reunion luncheon. It is school holidays for a neighbouring country. My friend Lilian rushed back to be with her mother. Her husband came along and her only son enjoyed playing with his cousins.
Since we already reached the half century mark, our parents are at least in their seventies. My dad was eighty seven when he passed on. My mum is seventy eight years old. Right now she is looking forward to her trip to Hong Kong. Everyday she walks in the morning, on a good day she can walk non-stop for forty five minutes. Apart from her medications, she takes her many food supplements faithfully. That includes unprocessed honey, spirulina, calcium magnesium, vitamin C and Omega 3 fish oil.
Lilian's mum does not go out. She has a tendency to brood over things that upset her. Not surprisingly each time Lilian comes home, her mother talks about death and the old lady worries about how her three grand sons would cope without her caring for them. After everyone asked their questions, our general consensus is that the old lady is not having a good diet, especially breakfast and lunch. There is a lack of exercise and she lacks friends and hobbies. It is tough that the only daughter she communicates well with resides four hundred miles away.
The most frightening thing is that the old lady talks about dead relatives as if they are around her daily. If we apply western psychology, we would say she hallucinates. By eastern traditions, perhaps these spirits are a harbinger of death, which the old lady seemed to concentrate much on since her husband passed away.
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