sickness gain

 

Dear friends of piano music,

 this week the pianistic output is admittedly a bit meager. Unfortunately, I was sick, nothing serious, but so exhausting that I tried to get out of bed several times in the morning and went to the piano, only to find out that there was no point and that I should sleep urgently.

One of the interesting words I learned in school was "sickness gain". At the time, I was fascinated by the fact that you can get a certain motivation to maintain an illness from the fact that it also brings advantages. As a child, this is harmless and manageable: you don't need to go to school, when the fever has dropped you can watch TV to your heart's content, etc. As long as I haven't had any children, it was exactly the same as an adult - No school, but books etc., if headaches and other pests allowed this. Later I learned a no less fascinating word, “maternal resilience”, which is supposed to mean that as a mother (or father) you don't get sick in the first place, but steadfastly fulfill your duties in childcare and household. I think there is a very clear connection between these two phenomena: Parental resilience arises from the complete lack of disease gain. As a mom, you can't just lie on the sofa and watch TV when your nose is dripping, your head, throat and ears ache - the children still have to be looked after, they are hungry, they pour their multivitamin juice over their T-shirts, they get together in the hair and need to be comforted. It's not really clear beforehand what it means to have children: It's not just the ruined figure, the prevented career and the lack of pension provision - you never have peace again, even when you're sick . Is it actually worth it? Yes, amazingly it is. How boring, dreary, gray and lonely my life would be without these cute little monsters ......

Best regards

Kerstin

 

Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach: Solfeggio

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