My 46th Post: Ignorance of the Old

Societies are different in ways but there are issues which each adopt form one and other....the worst part is that rarely a society adopts something positive.....as time flies by, once strong limbs weaken up and stop supporting the body....the person who walked without the need of anyone, requires support just to stand up on his/her feet....that is when that someone realizes that he/she is mortal and with time things deteriorate...
A man marries a women and nourishes his children with an expectation that when he grows old, his children would support him and take care of him....few societies still have the same belief but the rest are worried and expect to see a dark future.....these days there is no respect and everyone lives for his/her own benefits....no one cares whether something would hurt someone, just wonders, would it bring happiness to his soul or not....
This is a growing threat mostly in the super power countries....the old is afraid that one day they would be kicked out of their home and sent to an old-age resort or something like that....the values are dead and people worry about their personal benefits to an extent that they are forgetting about the couple which brought them to the stage they stand upon.....parents are becoming a burden for many and when they are questioned upon this, a simple reluctant reply arrives which is that they didn't ask their folks to take care of them...if they made up a choice of supporting them, that doesn't means that they would get that in return....
The reason behind this is upon the path which the society is moving....relations are viewed as a game...they can come and go at any instance of life...if in a society, a dad changes every second month, how would someone expect the child to be there to support his parents....it doesn't makes sense because the basic relation is a joke for him/her.....if there ain't any stability at young age, there won't be any difference when a child becomes independent....he/she never understood the standing of one relation.....and when they realize, its mostly late as they see themselves in the same position....
Imagine when you have no where to go and not enough strength to do any thing, you sit all alone in a room with no one you would relate to....no one there whom you would call yours...all your life you were there for your family but when you need them the most, no one is there to pick you up....the years when you were young, you stood out in the sun just to earn for your child and now that selfish doesn't even stands you under a same ceiling....how would it feel? devastated? frustrated? it would be worst then the words I mentioned....
In order to avoid that future, we need to straighten our present...instead of ignoring relations, we need to stand besides them and try to bring them closer to us....yes, jobs may get hectic at times and it is tough to earn but if spending time after earning money ruins your family time, then it is an useless effort...the one you would be earning for would leave you in mere future because you weren't there when they were trying to stand...that is one of the most frequent reasons of loneliness in old age....
Instead of having a stick in hand, it would feel amazing if one's grandchild is there all the time....rather than sitting in a room doing nothing just waiting for the death to arrive, it would be better to stay in between the loved ones and die while spending time with them....it is always easy to lose things and tough to gain.....but it is never impossible....
Bend the ways of life and try to be there for each other because no one can really survive alone....a day comes when we need to hold one's hand and walk down the road....do consider this and try to hold on and respect the old generation because one day, we would be sitting where they are present right now...
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