Hazellesophie - 40 y.o. - Philippines
- started on 23/01/2009 to 22h05
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What would you do? I got the chance to visit elderly people at a Center. Just the sight of them made me feel so emotional. These people we visited are not my relatives. I prepared food for them, and i asked my students to serenade them. They also asked me to sing even though i am not good at it. I was telling myself. I cannot imagine putting my parents in that place.And i don't want that to happen. It made me miss my grandmother so much. I just don't understand why are there people who abandons their parents?
Unknown member - posted on 26/01/2009 to 10h59
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What does Love mean today ? Not much I guess... People are no more able to love their parents and family, as they are no more able to love their friends or wife/husband. Rare are people who really know and experience the true meaning of love.
As far as I'm concerned I love my mother and, just like you, would never abandon her in such a place. Even though she is sick, disabled, or anything. She will still remains my mother and I will care for her as long as she is alive.
I don't want to be like all those people who "put their parents to garbage" and forget them, because they slow them down with their happy life or are too expensive to care of. Our parents have always struggled for us, to help us be the autonomous adults we are today. The slightest we could do is do the same for them when they are in their old days.
Elderly people in those centers like the one you visited are often forgotten by their family, it's a shame. But it's a chance people like you care for them and let them know they have still much value as human beings and deserve to be happy, loved and cared of to their final day.
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