Mode of Hope
We hope that it’s worthwhile to stay in touch with someone albeit they forget your name, their place or your relation. We hope we learn about each other while we accompany the demented and their fading memory. Not everything that is lost is tragic. Forgetting might as well be liberating.
We might hope to be remembered. We might as well hope to be forgotten.
To hope is to remember the good as well as the bad, to actively hold onto the only source of orientation we have - past experiences. Hope can take the form of continuation. Memory connects us to lives beyond our own, reminding us that we are shaped by what has been handed down and what we choose to keep alive. Some things persist not through permanence, but through remembrance.