Respect For The Elderly - WEADD 2015

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It is not their weakness to be weak, it is not their weakness to love us. It is absolutely not their weakness for caring us. But it's their experience, kindness and loving and caring they got for us. ELDERS, whoever they may be. A co-passenger in a train, a salesman at a grocery store, a civilian who is crossing the road. All these are the elders and who are the true citizens who have been contributing to the country. They are aged but not the love in their hearts.

I never had any chance to spend with my grandparents because they are late. And I saw the love who are in their 60s and 70s, their caring behaviours and concerned attitude. The neighbours who are elders when I was going to school, every time they inquire about my health. And the elder-woman at the general store treated me like her grandson. They all are worth to be respected.

In this generation, we observe many elderly people who are devalued in the society and even in their own houses. The illtreatment towards them are causing their innocent hearts to bear an unbearable pain. Do they deserve this?

I saw many times who just don't care about the elder people. Once personally I experienced it, my Dad who is a retired employee and in his 60s. When we both travel together to longer distances I saw the teenagers and the middle aged guys who show disrespect to him. They all are literates and they do know the morals. But still they treat elders as a garbage. Where did their ranks and credits go?

Own sons and daughters of the modern world. These are the developed guys, who betray their own parents and join them in the old age homes etc. Some people ill-treat them every time. With hurtful words and acts.

They lost their mind, exactly they lost because what they are today in the society is all because of the their parents, who are elders now.

Elders are compared to children because their mind needs rest, it takes rest from all the stuff they did. They behave like children because they have no guilty in their hearts as nothing they feel like left for achieving.

Our elders maybe grandparents or parents, taught us to walk now it is our duty to help them to walk. But pushing them aside is a nonsense.

Do not isolate them, as they are with us during our darkness and now they need a helping hand. Not for a cash or any fame. But to stand and walk, showing respect to them will cost nothing but in return we get the blessings.

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A boy tries a lot to impress a girl at bus stop and other waiting places. When any elder passes by he just keeps on mocking their walk etc. Is this the real citizen? What name should we allot to such people?

The actions of elders makes us irritate. I agree with this because in my home, my mom and dad are elders. They keeps on repeating the same words on a same topic again and again. I feel disgusted sometimes. But I need to understand them, because their behaviour is due to their age and I smile and let my anger down. Because I really know them, I may not existed unless they are there for me.

Do not treat elders as a load. Spend time with them so they share their experiences with you. And thereby the most tough situations may be out from our lives with their simple tips. Because experience is a big thing.

Show me a person on earth who doesn't grows older? Before we treat them as weaker section. Let us place ourself in theirs and imagine, just feel the agony when the words of you touches their hearts. For me, when there is a decrease in the number of members in the old age homes then a country can be considered as a developed one. Because many elders in those homes aren't orphans but they are avoided and abandoned by their own families. Is this what they dreamt of?

June 15 2015 is the WEADD- World Elder Abuse Awareness Day and its aim is to let know the real stress and pain the elders are in when they get abused.

Sign of disrespect to elders isn't good for anybody as it is not heroism but a cowardly character. Help them if you want, or make others to get aware on how to behave if they cross the limits in the society when conversing with the elders.

This is taught when we are in nursery and when grown up, some of us are ignoring this and becoming a heel characters.

Whoever the elder is, irrespective of the gender, class, community etc. Take a step to help them when they are in need. Everwhere and anywhere, let us be ready to respect the elder ones.