Take Care of your memories

My grandmother is the person I have the most connection with, she was the one who taught me to love people and to believe, in the universe and in good.

At some point in our lives we got lost when he, the alzheimer, arrived and started taking her entire story from her. It was devastating, it still has been because even though his body is still here his mind evaporates, goes back and forth in seconds in time.

I observed the beginning of this memory theft and now living in Florida, far from it, I felt the need to reconnect to my past self and rescue everything that is my history to try to evolve as a human being.

I was reunited with her with everything she taught me and with all the time we spent together, while she was just my grandmother.

Today she can be several within one and I make a point of being by her side through technology trying to show her that I know she is still inside, giving her all the love she always gave me.

Sometimes it is distressing because I feel that she should free herself from her body and rest from this struggle that she is certainly facing and only she knows how, but sometimes her voice already gives me strength to continue my journey.

I feel selfish and at the same time happy to have her still here.

The mystery of life as I can know, I'm just living what we still have and keeping in a special way for me and mine everything I had and have with this amazing woman who gives me all the love even in suffering.

The collage and interventions was the way I found to talk to her between Brazil and Florida, because when we love something, everything becomes possible, I believe.

Take Care of your memories by Cristiana Motta

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