Find myself thinking about an older friend who had almost the entire fabric of her life context ripped away over a few months. Longtime community - gone. Sense of close proximity to family - gone. Home - gone. Husband - gone.
Her experience is extreme. Most older people loose a long-established sense of context over many years, so gradually that many don't realize it is gone & are left with a quiet sense of being bereft, but no idea of why.
I can think of nothing braver than an older person consciously intentionally actively building a new sense of context out of their previous life.
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