Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about losing them.
And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god.
It is all part of this culture.” He exhaled. “Which is why I don't buy into it.”
I nodded at him and squeezed his hand. We held hands regularly now. This was another change for me.
Things that before would have made me embarrassed or squeamish were now routinely handled.
The catheter bag, connected to the tube inside him and filled with greenish waste fluid, lay by my foot near the leg of his chair.
A few months earlier, it might have disgusted me; it was inconsequential now.
So was the smell of the room after Morrie had used the commode.
He did not have the luxury of moving from place to place, of closing a bathroom door behind him,
spraying some air freshener when he left. There was his bed, there was his chair, and that was his life.
If my life were squeezed into such a thimble, I doubt I could make it smell any better.
“Here's what I mean by building your own little subculture,” Morrie said. “I don't mean you disregard every rule of your community.
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