Old age.
Greetings my dear readers, today my story is about a question I have and I would like to share with you my precious commentators.
I often see families that seem to be well constituted but at the end of the day they aren’t, it’s all just appearances.
I don't understand why in many families, in spite of having hard working and struggling parents, some of the children, if not all of them, prefer not to pay attention to their parents when they reach the age of senility.
In society it seems that when we are older our children will take care of their parents, but this is not the destiny of all elders. It seems that after the children become independent, it usually happens that they do the same with their blood and/or sentimental bond that unites them to their parents.
They leave them to their fate, or place them in care homes because they have their own lives and cannot take care of their parents and being there the parents forget about them until they die or, if they are lucky, they visit them on their birthday or on Mother's or Father's Day.
I have always wondered why we see this more and more in societies. Because there are more and more older adults alone on the streets, shopping, taking care of children, paying debts or running errands alone.
Were they not given a proper education? Were they not given enough love to share in old age with their old parents? What happens, because we leave them alone?
I read a story some time ago about a man who was at his son's family home. There was the married son, his wife and son. When they ate, the shaky man threw the food on the table and made a mess, this bothered his son who always scolded him.
One day the son decided to place him on the floor with a plate of food so that he could make as much mess as he wanted without bothering him.
The little boy, seeing this in his free time after school, began to make a clay plate. Little by little he was giving it the shape of a plate until the father approached his son and asked him what was this homework that he had been doing for days, seeing how hard he was trying to do it.
The boy answered that it was not homework but that it was a plate that he was making him from now on so that when his father was old he would eat on it, on the floor like his grandfather did.
His father immediately realized what he was doing and the example he was setting for his son, so the next day he put his father back to the table and put a handkerchief under his neck so that he would not get dirty when he ate. He helped him eat by patiently feeding him and treating him with the respect he deserved.
I found this story very touching because whatever we see in childhood we imitate and continue to do in adulthood.
Even so, there are parents who have been exemplary and have only received contempt from their children when they reach an age where they are not able to fend for themselves.
It’s not all children, some of them are, and that is why I can't understand how, if our parents have given us everything, food, shelter, love, education and examples when they are at the age of greater susceptibility, they are left aside.
I know it’s not all children but this happens in families where there are several siblings. There is always the case of someone who is resentful, someone who is not happy with his life and therefore treats the older parents badly.
What do you think about this situation, do or would you do this with your parents when they are so old that they can no longer fend for themselves?
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Old people did their part in takng care of their children but later on they didn't get treated the same because for some reason those children get tired of them and it must be not...I hope that everyone take care of their old parents no matter what..