Old age home and the elderly

It was a sunny day one of those kinds of days where you could feel the joy and happiness in this world, a big expensive SUV stopped in front of a big bunglow type house. The passengers included a women maybe 60 or 70 but still she had sharp yet kind eyes, and a man old enough to be her son. She looked out of the car and the bunglow was infact an old age home and yes the man was her son. After all these years of taking care of her child this is the gift she receives, but she didn't argue and got out of the car took her luggage looked at her son for one last time you feel the despair in those eyes but no, no resentment. And then a third charecter arrives, the security guard upon recognising the women asked the man why she was here, he asked the guard "you know her?" To which he replied "yes she was a very kind women who used to come here to help with all kinds of stuff but for one incident he said he could never forget her" he paused for a bit and then said "some 30 years back someone left a child in front of this home and without having any second thoughts she took the child in her care to give him a loving home and a proper opportunity to build a bright future, really an unbelievable women".
This was just an advertisement i had seen sometime ago, i just thought it was relevant to the topic at hand, each and every aspect of our lives are made with bits of sacrifices made by our patents. And no it's not something they have to do it's something they choose to do, i guess something inside of a person changes when he or she becomes a parent. But in this day and age the gift they receive from their children is a one way ticket to an old age home, no it is not true in every case but it's just becoming a norm in our modern society. And i say this because when people hear about this they don't get shocked anymore neither do they feel pity.

Now as Indians we often boast about our rich heritage and culture. The same culture that teaches us to respect our elderly and that one's parents are above all, after all who hasn't heard the story of 'shravan kumar'. And we often curse the westernisation of our society that it has changed our children. But you cannot blame everything on the west after all they too have old age homes. But things work a little differently there after a certain age a child is supposed to take care of himself, and their parents too live their own life accordingly they do not just rely on their children , they have their savings and they take care of themselves.
So in my opinion it has nothing to do with kids being exposed to the western culture too much. Someone once said to me if you want to climb to the top you have to lessen your baggage.
Anyways Why is such a culture spreading so much i don't know but what i do know is while life is not fair and you don't always get what you deserve but the tears of a helpless father or a heartbroken mother can never make you happy. And if it does make you happy you are not human anymore.
                                             Writer:  আলোর পথযাত্রী