20250820 - Living on the edge...
There are many challenges and limitations that I face everyday, to just get by the day. I am not unique in that aspect. There are 100s of thousands of people who face challenges and limitations everyday. I think it is the element of "hope" that is different. I am guessing (& I might be wrong here ), but I feel somehow there might be an element of hope for some improvement in the future that p ropells most to go on. I am guessing it might also be the situation with very elderly individuals who have an unexpected mishap/ accident and impacts them severely . e g , consider an elderly person in , say - their 80s, reasonably independent otherwise , but having an unexpected accident / fall breaking their back/hip. It will be very severely limiting. Given their age, they will inherently know (I am guessing again ) that "hope" and probability of recovery is very dim. That's very very demoralising and di...