Respect the Living Gods

It’s not very unusual to hear about the abuse of old parents by the son and the daughter-in-law. A woman thrashes a girl and the headlines hit the newspapers but only sympathetic sentences turn out to sooth the insulting done to the old generation people. Shakespeare described the old age as returning back in to the childhood in his poem “Seven stages of life” based on the dependence of the old people on others especially for physical works. But it shouldn’t be forgotten that the same body had raised you in your own childhood. Now, you can be physically stronger than them or sometimes financially as well but the experience hidden in their white hair can’t be overpowered by you and the respect it deserves can’t be replaced by any excuse.

On this earth, where the seniors in family members have been considered as idols are taunted on asking for two meals of the day at the end of their lives. Sometimes, they are even thrown out of the houses for being incapable to support themselves. Just imagine if they had done the same while raising us in their laps. Parents try their best and even cut down their own comforts to raise their children either two, three or four but such a shameful matter that these four gain four thousand excuses to show the outer way to their single parents.

Only two stages of the life have been compared by the great poets and writers to the heavenly touch, the childhood stage for its heavenly innocence and the old age for its heavenly experience. Our parents shower their love and support at the young age so, is it not our responsibility to respect their heavenly experience at the old age? Life is the gift of the almighty and we should do whatever we can to retain our next life as human beings. No worship or religious ceremonies would be fruitful without the heavenly blessings of our parents and none can escape the curse if ever thought of hurting them. They would silently accept everything but the God sees every act and would never leave us. If not afraid of human beings, better be afraid of the God.