What’s your favorite game (card, board, video, etc.)? Why?
I’m currently recuperating from surgery. I’m supposed to be happy to have some time off from work. Which I am. I’m supposed to be making the most of this time. Which I don’t whether I am or not, as that phrase and concept is nebulous and meaningless.
As I sit here dreaming of trips and watching bad movies, I briefly let myself imagine that my mother is still alive. I picture her playing ganes with me to distract me. I picture her playing connect four with me. That was our game. I must have played that over a thousand times with her. I became unstoppable. I couldn’t lose. Should I be playing that game now without her? I have three different versions of Connect Four. The game could be comforting in a way that watching bad movies is not. But at some point, I have to figure out what it means to make the most of my time.
Categories: childhood, Culture, family, Health, identity, mental health, Psychology
psychologistmimi 
My mom is all I have left of my original family and I’ve taken over the majority of the cooking from her. I know how meaningful it is to spend time with her as she is 82 now and we’ve both lived through the losses of our only sons. So many things are loaded with meaning these days, and we find ourselves remembering stories of the past that we need to find a way to put down on paper or computer for other family members like my brother’s adult kids and grandkids. Time feels short in too many ways.
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Pass Go Collect 200 Dollars
True Monopoly Was Fun As A Child
Playing it With Family and FRiEnDS
BacK iN The Days Dear Miriam Before Wired Up
Life Including Wireless Breathless Connections Hehe
Yes It’s True That’s All There Was to it Just The
Game Just The Present Moment of Playing With
Others Warmly And Usually Winning too Getting All
That Rent From Park Place and Boardwalk Hotels Yes
Dear Lord As Much
as i Loved Playing
That Game Then
i Surely Am Glad i Don’t
Have to Pass Go Anymore
to Collect 200 Dollars to Go More
And More And More Just Never Ending
Wash and Rinse And Dry Cycle of the Monopoly
World i No Longer Play A Part in Anymore At All With SMiLes
No Longer Cog or Machine Thank God i’ve Come to BE A Real Human Being..:)
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Rest, recover, reminisce – and don’t be so busy! You’re healing, it’s a process, and a lot of it will be boring. Do take good care of yourself – maybe write some of the memories down.
Whatever you do, don’t get in the way of the healing. It’s not as easy as we think to put things back together after major insults. Bodies need their time. Minds do, too.
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I hope you’re healing well. Our parents never really leave us, their memories stays with us forever.
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