Last update: 24 March, 2022
Sometimes life hits us hard. It's not always all plain sailing, but we still have to continue living with fortitude. Sometimes phrases like "why me?", "I don't deserve it!" Appear in our minds. Unfortunately, it's not about whether you deserve it or not. Sometimes what happens to us is dark to us, but the light within this darkness is right in our hands.
One of these harsh experiences that we can find ourselves having is dementia. It is one of the hardest blows that directly affects our memory or that of the people we love, making us lose, along with memory, even our identity. But is it possible to see this from another perspective? Then we leave you to the beautiful short film Lost Property which answers this question with a resounding "yes".
"Dementia affects 47 million people worldwide"
-OMS-
The hard blows are faced with patience
From this short film we can draw an important lesson to be put into practice in our daily actions. When life hits us and we feel we are losing everything, we may feel the need to insist or immerse ourselves in a fiction that turns or compensates for the situation as soon as possible. However, we forget that we must have patience.
We tend to bear uncertainty with difficulty, the truth is that not knowing what will happen to us in the future can lead to a lot of anxiety in us., making us feel as if we were on the edge of a precipice whose depth we cannot guess. This precipice has a lot to do with the feeling of loss of control that comes from events and news that we do not expect and that are negative.
We can say of this anxiety that it rarely helps us. The shots will continue to take us by surprise and we can do nothing to avoid them, much less to control them.
So what can we do? As the short film on dementia shows us very well, they are necessary patience and persistence. We need to stop wanting everything to be resolved from the said to the fact, focus on the small improvements that can be achieved by making an effort and, above all, have a great dose of hope.
APatiently facing the hard blows that life can reserve for us does not mean that we have lost hope, but that with love we are trying to live with the uncertainty of not knowing what will happen tomorrow. What will happen today, however, we know. Because we have control and power over the here and now.
Alzheimer's is a form of dementia.
It's the little things that make sense of it all
Another of the lessons that this splendid short film offers us is to focus on the little things, including those that may seem insignificant, because it is precisely in them that our happiness very often resides, although sometimes years have to pass to realize it and we must find ourselves having the age of the protagonists of the short film.
We are always in pursuit of big dreams, we try to accumulate many things, we desire enormous wealth. In reality that the real value is found in tiny, imperceptible things. Because when the person next to us suffers from dementia, the big dreams are destroyed and accumulating things no longer makes any sense. What are? What are we left with? There lies the magic.
It often seems that life has to hit us very hard to make us open our eyes and make us realize everything we take for granted.. And the beauty is that he had always been there, under our noses. It wasn't something we had to fight for. It was there, we just had to appreciate it! But we didn't do it because our attention was elsewhere.
"However much advice they may give us, there are life lessons that we will understand only with blows and stumbles"
-Anonymous-
Although the blows that life gives us are hard and make us suffer - in the case of the short film because of the person we love most - we must not underestimate a positive side that they certainly have: they allow us to open our eyes. We live constantly with the autopilot engaged, only adversity and unexpected problems make us remove it.
It's time to stop waiting for that to happen to start appreciating the little things, our life as it is. We need to start cultivating patience to deal with what is wrong as we would like. Wonderful lessons that can be drawn from the short film that we have proposed to you, in which love, appreciation for small things and a slight change of perspective can be the beginning of a wonderful journey alongside the person we love most. Even if his reality and ours no longer coincide.
