It really scares me to see how our life can dramatically change. Today we might be happy, healthy and leading a good life, but tomorrow might be different. We can be fit and healthy but we might not be able to walk tomorrow because of our health condition. We might be able to live in comfort but tomorrow we might live like a pauper. In short, whatever we have at this moment might be taken away from our grasp in future. We will never know what will happen and what is in store for us.
I am fully aware that throughout this live, there will always be adversity but the saddest part is when it happened at the final chapter of your life. To be abandoned by your own flesh and blood because your health condition is a burden to them. To live your remaining days in solitude when you used to be surrounded by your loved ones, not be able to do whatever you enjoy doing previously because your health inhibits you from doing so. Thats life, one moment you have everything and then it disappears.
I wonder how come so people can be so heartless, shirking their responsibility to take care of their old parents. My heart ache to see a sixty five year old woman (she got Parkinson and paralyzed) being tossed from one of her kids house to the other and they finally dumped her at their auntie's house (the old lady sister) who is also not fit enough to take care of her own self. Imagining this to happen to my parents or even myself is enough to make me feel like crying. The truth is, I feel like strangling their selfish children. However, as the Malay proverb goes 'berat mata memandang, berat lagi bahu yang memikul'. No amount of sympathies will lessen their burden. I can feel their frustration eventhough they did not show it.
I am fully aware that throughout this live, there will always be adversity but the saddest part is when it happened at the final chapter of your life. To be abandoned by your own flesh and blood because your health condition is a burden to them. To live your remaining days in solitude when you used to be surrounded by your loved ones, not be able to do whatever you enjoy doing previously because your health inhibits you from doing so. Thats life, one moment you have everything and then it disappears.
I wonder how come so people can be so heartless, shirking their responsibility to take care of their old parents. My heart ache to see a sixty five year old woman (she got Parkinson and paralyzed) being tossed from one of her kids house to the other and they finally dumped her at their auntie's house (the old lady sister) who is also not fit enough to take care of her own self. Imagining this to happen to my parents or even myself is enough to make me feel like crying. The truth is, I feel like strangling their selfish children. However, as the Malay proverb goes 'berat mata memandang, berat lagi bahu yang memikul'. No amount of sympathies will lessen their burden. I can feel their frustration eventhough they did not show it.
I pray that the tough times and sufferings wont last, for Allah to protect and give them enough strength to go through their days. May their heartless children realize and remember all the hardship that their mother had to go through to raise them.
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