Just Watching

so, I started watching a new series on Netflix. I'm not usually into teen thrillers but this particular series has really caught my attention and I've been really enjoying it. For anyone looking to stay up late at night watching tv, I definitely recommend Midnight Club on Netflix. Sometimes it's a bit of a tearjerker but I usually cry every night about nothing so this show gives me something to cry about. Almost 5:00 in the morning and I'm still up watching television.. go figure

[fauxartist]

I loved it too, There were just so many highlights and insights for young people to learn empathy and compassion for others that is lacking in society these days.

The true beauty of the show were the interactions of the kids, and the stories in the midnight club. The emphasis on letting these kids live their final days with a terminal cancer, or a tumor, etc., with other kids in the same boat who want to 'live' with their situation, not be dying from it and only be around people's pity party mostly for their own selfish reasons, and ignore the person really dealing with eventual suffering and inevitable death. I personally know how this is for someone to deal with, after being gifted the time given with a very dear friend who lived this experience till she passed.

I remember one time this group I used to hang out with, and my friend in the group was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and given a death date as they call it. And this group decided to throw a party for my friend, and as you walked in that night, candles were burning and the lights were lowered, and I was just shocked, and when my friend came in the door, attached to her meds pump and portable feeding tube, she looked at me and said she felt like she was going to a wake rather that a party. So I turned on the lights and the stereo and said let's party. I often helped my friend with little stuff like making it to the restroom, and if she stumbled, we would make light of it and I would just grab her, and once I held her up after a stumble, and we just danced... I'll never forget the joy in her eyes. The day before she passed she was suffering terribly, and they could do no more for her, again all these people standing around her bed talking, I brought her a CD player and headphones and leaned down to her and asked her if she wanted to listen to her music, she nodded yes, and I put the headphones on her, and she just smiled, I had to leave and go to work, she had a room full of people and I didn’t need to be there,... and then some hours later she passed. I hope someone does the same for me if I am in that situation.

[Hidden in reply to fauxartist]

Thank you for sharing that amazing story. No one could possibly understand what it's like unless they have walked in your shoes during those times of need for your friends. As I get older I often wonder if I'll have someone like that in my life during my final days. I only have a few more episodes of Midnight club and I am completely hooked

[fauxartist in reply to Hidden]

It's amazing where that kind of kindness can come from...and how we change to be open to accept that gift of being able to maybe ease a bit of suffering... I am no angel, and no, I am not a caregiver, but under some circumstances unexpectedly happening to you in your life...we can either receive or give... and maybe make a little difference in a good way. Doing something unconditionally is rare...and the ultimate in acceptance and love.