Together with Yi An and Yong Jian, we visited Mdm Lim and this is a brief account of what we talked about.
1) Is that a flower?
2) Cat head curry/Cat meat
3) Human meat (with/without curry)
+ lots and lots of laughter.
Continue to find out more..
It was our first time visiting Mdm Lim and she was already sitting at the void deck and she said she did not need help with cleaning up the house. Therefore, we just decided to chat with her.
Yi An made a very impressive but futile attempt to coax her into taking a walk around the neighbourhood by telling her there are many flowers that she could see and admire if she was to walk around. Out of all the beautiful and vibrant flowers that were available for use as an example, he decided to use this.
And thus, she was totally not convince there were any interesting looking flowers around..
At least that got us started on the great debate : Is that a flower?
She was very sure that was not a flower and said that Yi An was trying to trick an old lady, that got all of us laughing.
As the conversation went along, we got started on food.
She jokingly talked about how she enjoy cats in curry, resulting in us bursting out in laughter.
Later on, she even added that she's into human meat as well.
Throughout the conversation, we also asked about her general well-being. She was okay except for the fact that she had constant backaches causing her to reject the idea of walking around (therefore, it's not Yi An's fault).
From the previous visitation reports, she was generally unhappy with her life but I could see that when she was chatting with us, she was actually glad that there we were willing to sit down and talk to her. She was also feeling okay when we were talking to her and was less pessimistic than before.
That's one small change in her attitude, one giant leap for us. Even if it's a small change, it's worth every bit of our time for the visitations.
It's not about whether that plant is a flower, or that human or cat meat is tastier (with or without curry), it's about the differences that we were able to make by spending some of our time. Such time spent is well spent as it moulds us into better people, and at the same time, helping someone.
Last but not least, a photo that Yi An took during our visitation:
"Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has"
-Edmund
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