Short Story: The old Priest who got Alzheimer's

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Bishop Jermiah Kendla, was already retired as a priest, and he had been retired in an old folk's home for retired priests, with other priests there too. As he reached 80 years of age, he had gotten Alzheimer's disease, and he had lost most of his memories of ever being a man of the cloth, a priest. He was moved into another section of the retirement village, a nursing home area, where nurses would care for him then there. The thing was that his personality changed. He became crude, rude, and nasty, to the nurses, and other staff there. He used to flash himself in the corridors, for example, and laugh at the Nurse's obvious distress, at their being surprised by a naked man, jumping out at them from a doorway, and it was usually somebody else's room than his own one too, that he would jump out from. Now, in regard to God, and heaven, was the good Bishop responsible for any of this changed behaviour of his, or not? Would he incur any extra karma for his actions here? Did it, his behaviour here, actually stem from any hidden suppressed urges, that he had held during his earlier life? Some thoughts about some possible answers to these questions: An animal, unconscious, as such, as to the conscious deliberateness of its acts, holds less responsibility for its actions, as its heart is not involved in the action, even though its mind inclandestinely still might be. Animals can be devious, and cock up schemes like this too, to get attention, and the old man was trying to get a similar attention here too. The Priests past repressed urges were now driving him. His heart was no longer attached to his mind, being run by his unconscious drives and urges, and yes, this does show that he had unconquered urges in him from before, never visited, but they were being held back by his religious beliefs, and convictions. He will incur some karma then as a repressed thought is not much better than one acted upon in God's books too, and he has never addressed his suppressed thoughts in his life. God looks upon bad thoughts, even repressed thoughts, but still being held onto, in that way, almost as actioned thoughts. We need to address our repressed thoughts, as, otherwise, they are still indirectly controlling us, in some way, and they will often come back to bite us again later in our lives, as they did here to this Priest, in my story too. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com Even as a shadow of ourselves, we still hold some responsibility for the size, and blackness, of that shadow.