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This is where I write my thoughts, feelings and my daily trials, tribulations and happy things
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Prompt: "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." George Orwell Is it easy to tell people something, about anything, that they do not want to hear? And which kinds of things do you think people wouldn't want to hear even if what is said may be the truth or to their benefit? It is so hard to tell people what you think they should hear. No one likes to be told they’re making the biggest mistake or doing the wrong thing, after all none of us are perfect. I had to do this only this week and it was so hard to do and emotionally draining. When it’s someone you love and care for it’s doubly difficult. My granddaughter, the mother of four children, suffers from poor mental health which is exacerbated by alcoholism. She recently spent seven weeks in a psychiatric hospital followed by eleven weeks in a rehabilitation centre. The programme was going well, her children were being taken to visit her weekly and we had plans to help her get her life back on track when she finished the rehab programme in just four more weeks. It was on Thursday when she rang my daughter, her mother, and told her she was leaving rehab and asked if she could she stay with her. My daughter was furious with her and told her to stay where she was. Then my granddaughter rang me and asked if I would pick her up from the railway station so she could get her car which we’d been storing at our house. I told her she was doing the wrong thing, throwing away everything she’d worked so hard for. But there was no stopping her. She came and got her car and slept in it for four nights in a local park. After fifteen weeks of sobriety she drank a lot alcohol. After four nights she rang me to ask if she could come and have a shower. I called her mother and broke the deadlock and persuaded her to let her have a shower at her house and a chat. Despite being so angry and disappointed my daughter paid for a few night’s accommodation for her, refusing to let her stay with her. Granddaughter is going back into the psychiatric hospital tomorrow. So yes, it’s terribly hard to tell someone what they really don’t want to hear. |
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