Recently the activities department in our nursing home has been offereing LOTS of bingo! Like almost every day, it seems! Sometimes, it has even been offered twice a day!
The patients love bingo, it is surely a nursing home staple. However, sometimes as a therapist it is a challenge to schedule therapy around bingo or other activities. For example sometimes I've had three patients who want to go to bingo, so I do my best to accommodate this desire!
At our place, the bingo "prize" is a coupon that is redeemable at a later date for some candy or other small items. Years ago I volunteered at a nursing home where they gave dimes as prizes.
When my patients go to bingo, I wish each person "good luck", knowing that each person won't win. Yet the patients who play bingo arrive in the room with smiles and anticipation of enjoying a good time with their friends.
On a recent day, I asked one of my patients if she had won a bingo. She had not, and she continued to tell me "but I had fun anyway!"
I love that remark, I think it is a profound lesson. So often we won't win in whatever we do, or we won't have the success desire in a certain endeavor. While winning bingo is something that is sort of predetermined in its outcome, by virute of the cards one has and the way the balls roll out of the spinner, experiencing joy in life is not predetermined.
I want to do better at living so that whether or not things go as I would like and hope for that I "have fun anyway" and find joy in all that I do.
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