01/11/2020
Welcome Old
God’s most wonderful and unique creature is human beings. Human beings only have the sixth sense to think what is right and wrong. “The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others” – Albert Schweitzer. The stages of human life are beautiful. The stages like child, boyhood/girlhood, young woman/man, middle age then become old. We are passing happiness and sadness in-between the stages. We learn to live. We try to know the meaning of life. We gain a lot of experiences too. We welcome every stages of life, especially the old age which is experienced and like a second childhood stage.
We face problems in all our stages of life. At present, old people problems are increased in our society. Reasons for these problems are contaminated human mindset, giving importance to materialistic things, stressful life. Every stages of human life have some commitments and responsibilities. Life is the journey. We have wonderful relations in the life journey. We keep relations throughout our life. The beautiful life journey starts from the birth. When a child is born there is no expectation in its mind, pure and innocence. Colourful and dry life pages cover from birth to death. The life cycle starts from childhood, we should ride the cycle of life journey with the correct balance. Everyone has same life but the situations, places and the people who are surrounding may be different. At young and middle ages, we should earn money and getting married, bring up children. The wheel of the life cycle goes around quickly. Everyone wants to bring up their children well. After becoming parents, men and women have responsibility to take care of their children. They work hard for their children’s goodness. Parenting is an art. Parents are educated or not, earning a lot or low, it is not a matter. Their only thinking is to bring up their children well and make good life for them.
Once joint family system was everywhere in the society. But everything is changed now. Most of the families are nuclear. Grandparents are the head of joint families, uncles, aunts, sisters, brothers and so on are in the joint families. So old age people did not feel alone. Their family members took care of them. They spent time with their grandchildren and guide their family members. They lived without stressful in old age. But now, peaceful life in old age is hardly. Everyone first starts learn from home. We imitate and learn values from our family members. Children have to bring up in a good surrounding, they can know good qualities. Grandparents told many stories to their grandchildren. They inculcated moral values through stories and express their unconditional love on their grandparents. Now, some grandparents are in the nuclear families. Some persons keep their old age parents in their home if they get any benefit from them mostly. Both men and women go for work. If they have a child, they keep their children through their old age parents. It is good, grandparents take care of their grandchildren. But a bitter truth is some of them treat their old age parents like servants without salary. They simply go for work and earn money. They try to leave from their commitments sometimes. They never think that their parents are old already, they work for the family, still they give more work to them.
We see some old people are living in roadside. Most of them are abandoned by their sons and daughters. Some persons join their parents into old age homes. Is this a way to care them? Just think, how did they care from our childhood? Without them, we are nothing. If they are abandoned us in our childhood stage, can we get a better life? Why don’t we think this? Some persons get properties from their parents then they do not care them. They expect love and care from their children. If they talk lovable and caring words from them, they feel happy.
In the modern age, everybody runs and settle in their life, has lot of commitments. Commitment is always existing in our life. But responsibility is more important than commitment. Earning money is important but caring our parents is more crucial. Health issues are common in old age. If their parents affect any health issue, some persons neglect in many ways. It happens in our society. Remember one thing, how many days parents lost their sleep during their children were sick? Another important thing is wounding persons through words. Most powerful weapon in the world is word. Some of the persons rankle their old age parents through words.
Old age comes everyone’s life. Today, our children notice everything what we do. If we send our old parents to old age home, children will do the same in our old age. Nowadays, old age homes are increased in our society. Many of the old age persons think better to live in old age home than home. Because they are not cared by their own sons and daughters. Every old age person in the old age home have a lot of longingness to live their old age life with their own sons, daughters and grandchildren. But most of them not understand their parents mind and wish. After their parents’ death, they realized everything. They did not care while they were living. Our wonderful gift which is given by God is parents. We never measure our parents love. We show our gratitude at least to take care of them. Never get rid of them.
In the old age, our parents are also like children. We don’t find faults and scolding them frequently, not to annoy on them. We can understand their feelings. If a men or women lose their spouse in their old age, they affect mentally. Children only take responsible to care them. We welcome every stages in life, why don’t we welcome the old age? It is also a pleasant stage. It is in children’s hand to make their old age parents whether be happy or not. We try to spread our love on parents during the old age. Let’s make them happy, create a harmonious and healthy society.
