It’s been really long that I have written something. Its not because nothing has touched me, but the reason would be that I was overwhelmed by certain happenings of my life. All personal, but can share one with my friends who regularly read my blog. Today I am a proud Maasi.. I know you all must me congratulating me, and think that I have readily and happily accepted all your greetings.
Today I have a much greater mission to accomplish. Now that even I fall in the list of “elders”, I am really concerned about the mishap of the older people. Being a native of Kerala, I have immense pride in the fact that how much importance we keralite give for higher education. And trust me, most of them are well placed. Think of a higher position in the hierarchy of any organization and for sure, one will find a person from Kerala.
Superb na… but I wonder whether this affiliation that they show towards attaining higher post, fat salary and a good house is reflected on their relationship maintenance capability. I visit Kerala very often, and one thing which is evident and highly visible in Kerala is big houses. Most of my relatives and extended family is almost spread all over the globe, and that is seen on the kind of house they own. Must say... good palace like houses.
But then as a matter of fact, it has never excited me. All this marvelous architecture, furnishing and all…just remain as part of houses and not homes. What we find in these palaces are their age old parents, left as house keepers or one can say care takers of the riches of their kids. They really yearn for their daughters and sons to be with them but seldom find them in their company.
Their only companion is their life saving drugs, which keeps them engaged through out the day, reminding them that they have to take this medicine by this time and have to sleep after taking that medicine, have to go for a walk and than end their day by having half a chapatti, since most of them are diabetic patients. And of course to wait for the BIG BANK DRAFT that is send to them, which their children think is all that what their parents wants. I pity them (both parents & their children). There is no internal motivation to lead life. Again it is all mechanical.
Remember, what you sow shall you reap. What I can visualize is once when these so called proud millionaires, whose only mission is to earn money returns, they will find them replacing their parents role, by taking over the empty house, their empires built with passion to show off their possessions, which they were never sucessful in transforming in to home.
The important lesson, the basic idea of human existence is forgotten very conveniently. Is money all in our life? Those people who made us capable of earning that money, were they just a stepping stone? Where is humanity lost? If a person cannot hear the inner voice of there parents what good is he off? I wonder.
Unless and until they take a conscious effort to stop this legacy right away, I guess humanity will die its natural death, creating robots who knows not to do any thing else but that which has been fed in to their programming system. People with artificial intelligence... Sounds funny, but practically it would be satirical to live in such a world. Just by sympathizing with those elderly people is not enough to realize what they are undergoing, try to empathize and then we understand what it feels to be at there place. And will also know who is a rich person.
If this pattern continues, I am afraid, you will definitely end up as a proud parent providing all riches to your sons and daughters, but what will they be to you, how will they relate with you?? I guess let us be fair to humanity and give it a decent chance to survive.
Do think over!!!
