Elderly people have feelings and deserve respect
How many of you look at the older person as a pain? Come on they move at a pace that comes close to a snail and when your behind them you are delayed for your own busy lifestyle.
Theyre always making buses late trying to count out their change for their concessionary fare. The queue in the chemist is always out of the door on pension day, just at that time when you are in a major rush and need to pay that bill that has been bothering you for ages!
Now lets try and imagine we are in their shoes. We work all our lives trying to make the world a nicer place for our children to grow up in. We were children once who ran about furiously thinking that if we didn't rush we would be out of time. We all met our true loves and married and helped the population by having our beloved children, experienced the heart break and the pain of losing loved ones and friends.
Our grandchildren look up to us and realise that we are wise and know the answers to everything.
Why not just take some time out of your busy lifestyles to see that we do not grow old gracefully, we lose respect, our looks, our figures. This is something that we are brave enough to accept and understand. We try not to be angry with those who laugh at us and make remarks, but there is only so much we can take.
We are people with feelings and minds too
One day YOU will grow old and understand what I am saying. Until then please just try and understand that we are people with feelings and minds too and treat us with some consideration.
Comments from visitors
at the same time, these old people are our origin and are the ones who gve birth to us !! the took care of us and now it is our turn..
i would seriously prefer living all by my self at my old time and never b dependent on elseone... thats my plans
But my advise to all oldery people around the world to learn about Islam & be muslims, I pet they will enjoy their elderly.
Regards,
Riyadh, KSA
Bakri Abdelgadir - 27-Nov-10 17:56
northern Malawi,Central Africa- the elderly are very much treared like any other human being
and are the best source of information regarding the history of our society and the youth
always come to them for a solution.So, if there is any body to be respected fist in this world
then it is the elderly because we are there because they took care of them .I wish I had
resources to support as many elderly as I could in my country.Please look at an elderly
person as the most important person the world has ever had and lt's them die piecefully.
fred zitithera phiri from Mala - 12-Aug-10 08:11
I am not at all sure that his bladder problems arise from "LOL-ing " too much because the boy does not sound like a bundle of laughs! Can you imagine going for a night out with him?
First there is his obsession with spotting the elderly as in " I just saw another old woman near my house" ( Yes dear there are lots of people out there and some of them are old; it's called humanity and they come in all shapes, sizes and ages. You would not be so surprised by them if you got out a bit more).
Then there is the obsession with bladders and urine. There's an old woman, and another one and another one - do you think they leak? Is there any urine about? I'm sure I smelt some!
No, I don't think laughing too much is one of his problems.
But of course, I will never take any advice from her. She is uneducated and very ignorant indeed. She is neither wise or knowledgeable. In fact, she is rather rude and ignorant most of the time.
However, she has brought me up so I am repaying her in her old age. It is just like repaying the bank for a loan. A natural and decent thing to do.
OLD PEOPLE THESE DAYS ARE A PR - 24-Feb-10 10:32
Anyway (if she wasn't your poor mother), how do you tell if someone is uneducated just by looking at them?
grumpyoldwoman - 24-Feb-10 08:29
I just saw another old woman near my house. There was this dead look in her eyes. Quite clearly, her spirit has been broken by the rigours of life. She was uneducated, wrinkly and mumbled to herself.
How are we going to solve the old people problem in society? Should we throw them back to school to receive an education? I think that is the best solution.
They can work in Macdonalds or KFC, at least they would be contributing to society.
OLD PEOPLE THESE DAYS ARE A PR - 24-Feb-10 07:16
why is it when I come on this site it's not about the actual gripe, it's people arguing?! Entertaining nontheless!





