When people are bereaved/ ill/disabled/ex-carers etc. they always seem to be told to do voluntary work and look after others. No-one seems to say that to healthy people when their families are all OK and don't need caring because they are "busy getting on with their own lives".
The fact that I wanted to look after my mother doesn't mean I want to look after anyone else. I don't even want to see any other elderly people nowadays because why are they still there when mine have gone? I don't want to visit my mother's older sisters, who obviously think I'm conveniently "available" now. Perhaps I'd care a bit more about them now if they'd cared anything about me before they got old and ill. Well, it'd be easier to look after strangers than relations of whom I have too many bad memories.
Lila
The fact that I wanted to look after my mother doesn't mean I want to look after anyone else. I don't even want to see any other elderly people nowadays because why are they still there when mine have gone? I don't want to visit my mother's older sisters, who obviously think I'm conveniently "available" now. Perhaps I'd care a bit more about them now if they'd cared anything about me before they got old and ill. Well, it'd be easier to look after strangers than relations of whom I have too many bad memories.
Lila