An interesting thing to strike our thoughts! There were these two graduates who came home and sat 4 a few minutes to discuss about "the conditions of abandoned parents"... I couldn't resist myself from listening to them, because the subject was an issue of great importance... This was the scenario...two people, graduates, who could have simply persuaded with their jobs or probably higher studies, going door to door, explaining about grannies and grandpas being neglected, talking about how those 'old babies' are striving hard to earn a living.. people who had been the bread-winners of their family, the backbone of their family, now finding it hard to live on their own without a backbone!! Man! what a pity! The fact that worried me more is that, inspite of years of explanations about human values, our Indian culture, some still tend to pull out from shouldering responsibilities in taking care of their parents... Conversion to nuclear families...ok acceptable... But what do we call this??!!! living without parents or rather isolating your parents from you!!???!!! Though i don't do it, something made me feel ashamed... not of me but of ma society.. We, who are going to be the immediate future, need to put an end to this pathetic situation!! When 2 people, in no way related to any of the parents who have been made to join in old age homes, care to worry about them and step each door to explain it, why don't the very own children of those oldies get the same thought??!!! Why the hell doesn't this thought never strike them! Won't they ever feel painful??!!! Won't their conscience ever make them guilty??!!!
There isn't a way OUT
ReplyDeleteThere is a way IN...that is..if we look into ourselves...we would realise not much of whom we really are is our own..most of our character and principles are all whatever our parents have imbibed in us.So its astounding how people actually quieten their conscience in such situations :O