Monday, February 3, 2020

Quite Ordinary

Happened to catch some of a late night drama on Noi's Suria Channel from a series entitled Bingit. The series deals with various aspects of mental illness or problems, each episode featuring a particular condition. The programme being screened dealt with a woman with a compulsion to hoard and it made for uncomfortable yet compassionate viewing, with several powerful moments. I was struck, as I so often am, as to how the material produced by the channel is nearly always at its best when dealing with the common stuff of life, since our ordinary problems are so compelling.

It was a reminder also of the quietly undemonstrative heroism of so many ordinary people negotiating their way through this vale of tears.

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