Old people are rare in Sweden. We have a tendency to lock them in to hospital like rooms, force them to go to bed at five so that the staff has time to put them all to bed before they go home from work. When you get old in Sweden you cannot take for granted that you can live with your husband since 50 years because you and he might end up on different wards in this hospital like home. When you get old in Sweden you can forget about the sun against your face or the fresh air because you might not ever be taken out again in the open. When you are old in Sweden you get hid away, so that everyone forgets about you even your children. As soon as you end up on a home you should try to forget you have ever lived because this will just be a long and lonely wait for death.
That’s why it is so nice to go out in a park in Warsaw and see old people still enjoying life; I’m not used to that from Sweden.
Written under the influence of The Cinematic Orchestra - Music Box
3 comments:
but why all of them needs to use public transport in the rusch hours? cant they go to the market during the day when everybody is working?
That was funny and depressing at the same time. Hey, you really are Swedish!
Nice take on old folks - though I'm pretty sure many of them would gladly exchange their "free" Polish existence for the comfort of a Swedish nursery home.
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