Folks the next post goes with something I have missed and will be missing throughout my life.. Its the warmth and love of my grandparents…. I never had the experience of being with my grandparents….. I was too small when I lost both my maternal and paternal grandparents…
I have seen houses that glitter with grandparents… Every child needs a grandparent to grow more securely into an unfamiliar world. Whats it that a present day generation misses out???? Its undoubtedly the unconditional love of their grandparents…… They miss the warmth, the humor, the child like heart, the pearls of wisdom… This is the pathetic present day society.. We just loose and loose under the pretext of being a perfect family staying aloof from people who really are gems to us….
Giving a present to grandparents, celebrating grandparents day, giving them surprises…. Isn’t it awesome and satisfying…… I have missed this and I do consider myself very unfortunate….
Grandparents sprinkle a kind of stardust over the life of grandchildren.. Often it so happens that a grandchild sees its grandparents as icons… They set examples.. They are the people with wisdom of sages… We learn from their experiences.. Thats why we do have phrases like ‘Grandma’s recipes’,’ Grandma stories’ and many more of them…
They are the ones for whose lap children fight over… They lend a ear of concern to their grandchildren… They never run out of hugs, compassion and kindness…….
But let me ask a question??? Why do we run out concern for them?????Why do we become so mean and cruel that we forget that those skinny and feeble hands are longing for ours to hold on??????????
We become self centric…. We lead a materialistic life… All are in search of a perfect family.. Which is totally imperfect… A family that has no human values….. The gravity of bonding is zero…. This is what we are today!!!!!!!We are too busy to lend ears to them.. We have started to laugh at their childlike behavior..Their advices looks silly to us and out of context….
Aging causes a lot of changes in ones body…. creaky bones, diminishing vision are inevitable.. Mental status changes drastically.. Behavior becomes childlike.. All these are natural phenomenon which is not self inflicted….. But we are too intelligent to understand this……
I have seen live examples where these elderly people are abandoned forever….. Its disheartening that these elders rose a family so admiringly and their loved ones just without thinking twice abandon them.. They are made to live in Homes governed by someone else…. Some face even worst calamities…..
When will we learn????? When will we be humans again???? I know what I have missed.. But its not the case with all….. Cherish the angles that you have……. In the autumn of their lives they are just waiting for that one gesture of love and compassion…………………………………………. Let us not let them down……………..
it is not that you can show love to only grandparents.. i too lost them at an early age.. but it doesn’t mean its the end of it.. u can visualize any old person as ur grand parent. during my college days we used to see a poor old handicapped man near our colege premises. we used to give him money daily. he was very happy to see us and would bless us too.. even if we would nt hav money to give him he would bless us.. aint that lovely? so theres nuthin to worry that we dont have them in our lives.. we can look for other ways too..
Comment by Mohammad Farhan — April 22, 2010 @ 3:03 pm |
Thats true.. I really appreciate u r gesture to a person near u r college…. Even I am doing something of that sort…….. But the ironic fact is people nowadays forget those who really adored them……….
Comment by Archana Rao — April 28, 2010 @ 4:15 am |
Nice post… The need of the hour i should say… The concept of blindly aping the western culture, the nuclear families which all long for are ensuring that the kids end up growing without the support and unconditional love of grand parents. Forget grand parents, these days parents are only abandoned.
Comment by Vaibhav — April 23, 2010 @ 4:00 am |