Living Life Our Way

"Your life is in your hands.  You may live it as you wish." Christian D. Larson

Some people living now do not have the luxury of considering how they want to live their lives.  Some people, by necessity, are focused on survival.  Only when we have our basic needs met can we consider other ways of living.  Most of us are lucky enough to have food, shelter and protection -- so we can focus on how we want to live our lives.  Sometimes my loved one's hallucinations are of being imprisoned or held captive; and that makes so much sense -- because in a very real sense his disease of dementia is holding him captive.  We can consider caregiving as an imprisonment too, or we can consider we are doing it by choice.  Even if we did not choose to do the caregiving, we can choose our attitude toward doing it.