Lovable parents are the lovable gifts of God, but we are reluctant to show even a single percent of love to our parents when they are alive with us.
Our culture recognizes the status of the parents as that of God. Their duty to beget the children and to take care of their parents.
Lovable Gifts Of God
Nowadays we can see in our society, that the children are not willing to take care of their parents and they do not want to spend money and time on them. Besides, they are treating their parents as burden. The number of people in old age homes is comparatively increasing day by day as a result of which most of the parents are now deciding to live in old age homes rather than living with their family members and children.
These people are facing problems like lack of care and moral support from their family. At this old age almost all the people need some kind of support. In this situation, their family leaves them alone. Then they move in search of others’ help by staying out of the home, as a life below the poverty line.
Depressed Minds:Treasure should not be discarded. Lose of treasure can never be regain.
The Neglect of Older Parents in the Modern Era
Every life has two phases. The child hood and youth are full of energy, strength, and courage. But the situation is reverse in the old-age. For every work one needs someone’s support and help They want someone to take care of their day to day needs, health issues that nursing with affection, hat needs hut these expectation or needs are not at all supported by children, not knowing that the same tate is awating them.
No one has enough time for them even his/her children, new generation mostly concentrates on money making and seldom find time to spend with their families. Children are forgetting their moral and ethical duties towards their parents. This is because of modern life style, status and craze for wealth.
Lonely Stage : Old is gold, preserve it
Many people experience loneli- ness and depression in old age and they prolong their lives in a terrible world of solitude. It shows loneliness, pains, sad feelings and struggles faced by them.
In this situation they are not at all ready to convey their feelings. They drop out of their families. cutting of relationships to start their lonely life with out any care or affection that they need in their old-age. It’s the unavoidable stages of our life. Nowadays, people consider parents who reach old age as a burden in the home. Most of the old-age people are poor who don’t have money, savings, properties, in- vestments, etc. So most of them face loneliness and abuse in one form or the other. Children have no time to look after their lovable parents because of their busy jobs and modern life.
Unstated Negatives : Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted create the most terrible poverty.
The Harsh Reality Lovable Parents
In this situation, people are neglecting the elders. Hence the loneliness starts and they abandon all hopes of living with their children for the rest of their life. They prepare them selves to face any type of upcoming circumstances.
Therefore, most of the older women remain within the four walls of their homes. Their own children and family members abuse some of them. Then ego clash starts between the parents and children in various unbearable situations and that’s why they feel that they can’t live together, as a result most of the parents are now deciding to live in old age homes. Then the life starts to face the difficulties and they start to do small works to have some money for their day to day -life Lovable parents are the true pillars of a family, offering unconditional love and support, yet they are often forgotten in their old age.
Painful Expressions: Abandoned by the dear and near ones. Yet, hasn’t lost hope.
Another big problem is high Illiteracy and lack of awareness about their rights.
The Impact of Modern Lifestyles on Older Parents
Now I realize the reason, why older people are moving to old age home is because they are feeling lonely in their surroundings. Now a days, we can see in our society that, the children are not ready to take care of their lovable parents and they do not want to spend time and money for them. Then the break up of the joint family system and emergence of modern life create the problems. Introduction of nuclear family creates this unhappy situation in our society. Status of parents as God in our life. When we are children they teach us a lot of things and give lots of caring. As they grown up they ignore them and refuse to take care of them. Nowadays Money, Status and Life style decide everything in life.
Final Hope : Unknown scene of old age behind the screen
Sadly in this society, everybody is leading a hectic life having very little time to spare for others. The life which we are living is a gift of God, to live together forever by caring each other. Lovable gifts of God, our parents endure hardship to bring up their children, but the children remain unaware of it. We must remember that every moment we enjoy in our life is the out come of our parents’ dedication and scarifies. Lovable parents dedicate their lives to nurturing and guiding their children, yet in old age, they often face neglect and loneliness.
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