aging gracefully

Have if ever wondered what will you do when you grow old? When your children grow up, have their own family and their own lives? What if even your spouse left you early? What if you contract alot of ailments and illness due to old age?

Will you become a burdern? Everyday enduring the pain, the loneliness? Slowly, gradually slipping into depression. Doesn't life become meaningless?

Sometimes i picture old people, sitting at home alone, not knowing what is going on in their mind now. All alone, their children all having their separate, at most visiting them once a week or even only when the school holidays come. Their grandchildren all grown up in the technology world, all not knowing their own dialects, they couldn't communicate with their grandchildren at all, and their grandchildren do not understand them. The connection, the bond is gone, all for some goddamn economic reason to learn English and Chinese and where dialects is totally abolished.

So i urge all of you to find a chance to sit down with your grandparents and show them that you care, you really care about them.