Oh Milly, I can totally understand this. I never feel more at peace than when I'm surrounded by nature and entering that zone of energy and light, focusing and cleansing my mind can only come from there.
In the meantime, I totally understand your reservations on carrying the whole family drama. It's one thing to listen, knowing you have a solution, it's another to just keep listening to different issues and then being continuously burdened by then since you don't have a solution. It's a wonderful way of living.
Yeah, being in the woods and nature in general is my happy place, and luckily it takes me just a few steps to get there.
My mum is like me who finds beauty in small things but unfortunately being mum means that she has to deal with drama, I suppose. Which is a shame because I don't think she should in her old age.
Generally, though, the entire family knows that I like harmony and cheerful conversations, and that I'm caring and considerate, but for drama, maybe in another life, just not this one:)
Hmmm....I don't think the elderly should be bothered by drama like that. Not profiting for them health-wise or any other way but I don't think, at this point, she can extricate herself from it. Or that she would even want that.
I find it strange that even after recent times and all that has happened in the world, that people still struggle to have gratitude for life and are not more appreciative of the good that they have.😏