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Revanth Vishnuvajahala |
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Age and love received- inversely proportional? |
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Posted on 5/3/2012 |
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"The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. "- Oscar Wilde.
When a man or woman turns 60, he/she is supposed to have a list of things to worry about, be it their degrading health, their loss of vision, their inability to be active and lively and the loss of external beauty. However, there is one part of old age that people would love to experience and that is the care, affection and love their children and grandchildren flood them with. Even for a glass of water they demand, they have a number of people around them to help them with their needs. But what if this very part of their lives are being snatched away from them? In this very materialistic world where money is like oxygen, we fail to allocate time for feelings like love, care and affection.
We only want to get close to things that can fetch us benefits and an old man or woman is definitely not going to fetch you anything. As a matter of fact, 1.6 million people live in nursing homes. This, very evidently is resulting in the very cruel act of dumping one's own parents in old age homes. As a matter of fact, 1.6 million people live in nursing homes We are not able to give our old parents or grandparents the time they deserve simply because all throughout our lives, we are running in this race of life where 'ultimate-richness' is the finish line and so we are not ready to leave this race for something as unimportant as non-materialistic treasures. But this is wrong.
We need to change our approach. We can never pay back our elders for what they have given us, but if there is something that can be close to paying back, It is flooding them with a lot of care and love till they leave the world. And if we still want materialistic treasures, its high time we say to ourselves, OLD IS GOLD!
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