let us pass it to our children
We do seem to have increasingly become impatient with our elderly parents. In today's society and in this age of medical advancements when one's life expectancy is on the increase, more and more parents find themselves on the threshold of ignominy of finding themselves increasingly being deserted by their children or abandoned to fend for themselves. This is most painful to them, especially if one is a widower. The increasingly eccentric natures, irritating behaviors and childish behaviors of the elderlies often becomes overbearing for us. But do we as the parents of young children tend to forget that we can never remain younger, our childrens will also become adults one day with their own families. Then don't we need to be more compassionate to our own parents who need more care and compassion. Don't we have to remember that they hold the beacon of light now waning in their progressing years, and they need to pass it on to their children so that the beacon keeps beaming its warm light in sustaining the faith on love and compassion to our children and then to our grandchildren, and then to their grandchildren ? Can we let it flicker and die in their hands never to reach our children and our grandchildren ? Can we let it die with them and also with them the faith on love and compasssion, of care and giving ?