Don't our parents deserve better???

I saw my Dad take care of his ailing parents (my grandparents) right until the time they passed away in their late 80’s. I always saw my mom love and respect her parents. I saw her making trips to Pune, all the way from Mumbai, whenever she could to visit them until the time they passed away.

Our parents, they bring us up with love and affection. They sacrifice their all just so we don’t lack the things we desire. They do their very best to teach us to differentiate between the wrongs and rights of life. They inculcate in us the correct values and principles of life so that we may live a life of integrity, honour and righteousness. Why then do i see so many souls abandoned by their children when they need them the most?

There are so many people I know of who live in the absolute lap of luxury and yet their old, ailing parents live a lonely miserable existence while they go globe trotting. They employ a full time maid for their parents and feel that their job in regard to looking after their parents is done. The maid knows fully well that the elderly person has no say in the quality of work they do. Resultantly, the elders in their care are so shabbily treated that visiting them makes you want to bawl. The house is an utter mess. The maid get to be nice and plump whereas the person in their care grows frail, bent and weak..

---Is this the life that our elders deserve after all they have done to make us what we are???

---Why do I see so many people treat their parents like third class citizens once they grow old, once they realize that their parents are of no use to them anymore???

---Do our parents become a liability for us once they grow old???

---Is it right for us to forget all their love and sacrifice just so coz they aren’t able to sacrifice any more???

---Isn’t it only right that regardless of our busy lives it’s now our turn to love them and take care of them as they are unable to take care of themselves???

---Doesn’t this generation realize that there will come a time when they too will grow old???

---Don’t they realize the type of example they are setting for their kids? Don't they realize that there will come a time when their kids too may treat them the same way as they see them treating their grandparents???

Don't our parents deserve better???

~ Bawi ~

P.S: This is my very first blog article hence please excuse the errors, if any.