Linda Sgoluppi ArtistI remember when your GP wasn’t just a name on a list. Care felt woven into daily life, unremarkable, but steady.
Now is different. Text messages arrive asking for feedback when human interation just hasn’t connected. Appointments are hard to come by, faces change, everyoneis a stranger. The system still functions, but the quieter, human part, has thinned out.
It’s easy to wonder if this is just what happens with age: that the world hasn’t changed, only the vantage point. But there are real shifts too, busier lives, stretched services, and communities that don’t always overlap the way they once did. Familiarity has been replaced by efficiency; recognition by process.
Yet, the memory of how it felt remains clear. Not grand gestures, just small ones: being remembered, being asked, being noticed. Those things still matter. Perhaps they always will, even if they’ve become harder to find in the places we once expected them.
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