Parents and Us

Hey All..

While helping my mother washes the dishes this evening, I’ve been thinking on what I’m going to write in my new blog. It has been a week since I created it. Then I decided to write about parents and us.

A few years back, there are series of media exposure on elderly being neglected by their own blood. There is a case where a father been left at the bus stop, a mother kicked out from a car at the side of the road and many others. I feel a bit sad reading that kind of story. I personally believe that this problem still happen today even though there is no media exposure.    

I Wonder why would biological son and daughter have a heart to send their parents to welfare center? By saying this I refer to the elderly who are totally neglected by their children. They did not care to pay a visit even once a year.

I Wonder what has got children’s mind these days? Has they forgot how to love their parents like they do when they still a kid?

There is a phrase, saying that a mother can take care 10 of her own children, but 10 children can’t even take care a mother. Pretty hard, huh..?   

Well, for me the concept is simple. Our life start with our parents, we wouldn’t be here without them. So, in other word we should thanks them for bring us into this world. Thanks them by take care of them when they are old.

If they can take care and tolerate with us in almost everything, why wouldn’t we? When we broke our mum’s vase, she scolded us but never kicked us out, right..? We cut the newspaper before our dad read it, but he never cut father-children relationship, right..? So why we left them just because they no longer can manage themselves, just because now they are senile and maybe just because they no longer give us allowance.

It is an obligation for us to respect them, take care of them, make them happy and provide all the needs. They don’t want our money, they just want our time.  

So, I made some points why we shouldn’t neglect them.

Remember, now we are young, healthy and fresh. But one day to come we going to be as old as our parents today. At that time, I’m sure that we also don’t want to spend last days at the welfare canter, right?

Just remember those happy moments we have with them. A reminder for all and myself too.

Thanks for reading.