MY VISIT TO AN OLD AGE HOME

                          Old age homes are all over the world but even in the best old age home, the old  people are lost,lonely and unhappy. Nobody, not even science can explain the love ,bonding and affection between a mother and child. Every mother wants her children happy. But when she finds that she is a load in her child's life, her whole world comes crashing down. She wants her children to have the best that she could afford. To obtain this she works hard for most of her life. Sometimes she goes hungry to feed her children .When her children have grown up, all she wants is for them to  spend some of their free time with her but when she is pushed  into an old age home , she feels devastated and helpless. She tries her best to adjust to the surroundings ,talk to the people who are strange and unknown to her.

                            When I visited an old age home, I got to know that being old is not easy. I could actually see the pain and loneliness in each person's eye. Our class was divided into groups of ten . Each group was accompanied by a warden.  We were taken to each ward which consists of three to four beds. We were not taken to some wards because there were mentally retarded people there. We had taken some daily used items like soaps, bed sheets ,bedspreads,fruits ,snacks ,etc.  It was not these things that made them happy, it was talking to us that gave them joy. There was a person who could draw very well. We asked her how she landed up there. She told us a shocking story, the story of her life.

                           She was from a very well bred family. She had a son on whom she had a lot of hopes but he took all her jewelry , money and property worth one crore rupees. He deserted her so she came to the old age home. This was a very shocking story . She told that she had never expected this from her most beloved son. This wave of reality knocked us down, a bit too hard.
           
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