Wednesday, March 13, 2013

When being kind is not an option of my control..

I heard a person commenting her Alzheimer's relative that have brought great burden to the family... "He is not the same" . I smelled some sense of half sentence to be completed with "he is not the same person I liked."

We like to be liked. Even Alzheimer's patients.
He doesn't want to be disliked either except that his disease controls who he is.

Do you have such forced-to-be angry and demanding relatives that used to be nice? How do we accept and love this angry person as he is now?