Pastime for the Powers that be?

 

Yawn! I’m bored. Who shall we do today?

You know, there’s a family I’ve been keeping an eye on.

What made you notice them?

The lady constantly sends messages to her friends and family saying she is so content that she couldn’t ask for anything more in life.

Oh! She is really asking for trouble! And why is she so content?

Well – she lives with her husband in a beautiful house with a garden, surrounded by flowers and greenery, waking up to the sound of birds.

That’s not so uncommon.

Her husband is enjoying his retirement after 40 years of hard work. They are friends and share a similar taste in movies, music and books.

Ok, a little less common, but still…

They have two sons – and they brought them up with the freedom to follow their passion, not necessarily become engineers or start earning big sums of money.

Really? And what do the sons do?

Well, one is a passionate environmentalist, cartographer and drone specialist, who loves his work. He set up his own organisation and has a very happy team who adores him. And.. he is married for the past 7 years to a very intelligent young woman. They both love sunsets and cats.

And the younger one?

He’s also a conservationist, and is figuring out how to work in the sports line while increasing awareness about the environment in the community. He loves  all sports, and the outdoors, and is very happy. And… he has a very lovely girlfriend.

Hmmm… My goodness, this is almost cloying. So what do you think we should do? Give her cancer?

I don’t think that would be enough. Her outlook is so positive that she’ll come out of it successfully. And, they have enough money to handle the treatment without it causing a serious dent.

Oh ok… that won’t work then. It’s no fun when they are able to handle things well. Maybe make them feel lonely and un-loved?

We can’t. They have a wonderful loving family, and a huge network of friends who keep in touch constantly. They really do have a too-good-to-be-true life.

Goodness! You should have told me about them earlier. How did we leave them alone for so long?

Well, we did threaten the family with potentially serious illnesses a few times. And they do have her mother with them, and she’s fully dependent and spends her day on a wheelchair.

But..?

But they handled all that quite well.  There is concern about the mother’s quality of life, but they have managed to make her very comfortable.

Ok…. Let me think. You know how people in their late 30s are just dropping dead inexplicably,  with the possible reason being the heart, the lungs or just plain COVID? Let’s go with that. And let’s go with that when they have just had a wonderful day together, filled with laughter. That way, they will feel the absence even more.

And they did. And we do.