After the age of 60, people’s life takes a different dimension. The familiar people of life start to become strangers. They have to live with chest pain for the rest of the years.
When a person crosses 60 years of his life he realizes that life is too inconsistent for him. It is the time when it never matters how successful or how unsuccessful he has been in his life, it is actually the time when he has to be completely dependent on others. At this age if one thinks that he still needs money in his life and he has to engage in some kind of employment even though he can’t because all the private sector doors are closed for him. His only job is to relive the memories of the life left behind. The person who once depended on him in every way now has to depend on those people. This situation gets worse and worse as the end of life progresses. It’s like a situation where you don’t understand everything and can’t say anything, you have to bear everything with your mouth and wait for death.
At this time you will not have enough money in your pocket, you may be dependent on other family members for this small amount of money, but you will keep thinking that you have earned much more than this and may ask the other member for this little money. The heartache will come down in tears and it is the time when only you will be with your life partner. One such person was narrating his entire life history to me now he and I work in the same company. At one time he was in a cloth business and traveled to many places in India and earned a lot of money. The two daughters have been married for more than ten years and they are now living happily. Now he has no recourse and at the end of his career the person is so humanely strong that he still wants to be involved in the work even though the company has told him to take retirement. I enjoyed listening to the various past stories from the man and I thought it was really exciting how life really exposes people to different experiences. It’s like that bird in the sky that once flew a lot but maybe now it’s not that strong so maybe today it can’t fly so high in the sky anymore. Somewhere, like that bird, I was feeling that pain in my colleague’s heart. I know that every man has to stop at some point in running, a man will get tired at some point and then he will have to stop, maybe he will have to stop for the rest of his life. But all I want is that the stopping is not traumatic or painful. And we young generation should show some respect to these old people because they don’t want much from us but expect a little respect. If we can’t give that respect to all these people then maybe we as humans are considered inferior.
