Nurturing the grey population

Life is more often about being taken care of in childhood and taking care of others in the later years of our lives. But what about the grey population whom we see but ignore and who need as much care and help as our young generation? People behave like children at two stages of their lives, one during childhood and the other in the last days of their lives when they need someone to listen to them, to cry and laugh with them, and give them the compassion and love which they yearn for. During our childhood, the lessons are mostly of nurturing, love, and compassion but we choose to apply what we have learnt only towards our future generations. We fail to understand the needs of those who had spent their lives taking care of us.  No one wants to live with, and take care of an old person who is ill and generally difficult deal with due to physical and emotional problems, that often require more care than they can provide. The journey of our lives begins with being taking cared of but we tend to forget the moral responsibility we have towards our parents. They need as much care, may be more care than our children and when we forget that, we forget one basic human need – the need to be loved. I see my friends feeling agitated while talking to their parents but have failed to understand the reason behind it. God, I see you every day of my life in my parents’ eyes and in the grey population around myself for they have been sent by you to us to make us understand that one day we will also have to go through the same phase of our lives.