“No more this feeling of lightness in the air around here…” said grandma. Part 1
Posted by: adonis49 on: April 8, 2013
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“There is no more this feeling of lightness in the air around here…” said grandma (fiction story) April 8, 2013
Grandma was perturbed this morning. She was not cheerful, and that is not uncommon early morning, to her and to me.
I realized that I love the night and loth the morning.
Nothing in the waking up process carries much hope for a better life: Just the same routine for maintaining the survival process.
Other people can’t wait to leave the house, under the excuse of going to work.
The Morning for grandma meant working studiously, without any interruption for hours on, until grandma falls down, claiming dizziness, back pain, chills, unresponsive muscles, unresponsive finger ligaments, arthritis…
The adage was “wake up early and devour the early worms…” as birds do and as the Chinese rice paddy growers do…
And this age is probably behind us, since all these maintenance tasks do not generate any money to back up whatever wishes I still have…
For elder people, waking up very early in the morning, even after you crossed the barrier of 80 years, is a must… Doing anything is better than loafing around or waiting for the sun to warm the air and the body…
Better feel the chill and freeze the fingers in cold water than wait for the sun to come to the rescue…
The sink must be cleaned of dishes from overnight binging of “other members of the extended family”…
Cooking for two families must be started, and usually two of the 3 dishes in the menu are burned for handling more than one job at a time… And the cooking burner is flooded and must be cleaned…
And the level of anger and frustration reaches its zenith: You cannot look such a bad cook after a life-time of excellent compliments…
Portions of the rooms in the house must be thoroughly sweeped and cleaned (floor, walls, windows, racks…).
Even a decade ago, I used to clean the entire house in a single day.
I tried to appease grandma that her attitude is a matter of temporary depression, and told her an example of how to control depressive moods without medications.
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