On th e day when y ou see u s old, weak and weary … …
Have pati ence and do tr y to u nderstand u s… … .
I f we get dirty when eati ng‌ and.. I f we cannot dress on our own‌ Please bear with us and remember th e ti mes we spent feeding y ou and dressing y ou up.
I f, when we speak to y ou, we repeat th e same th ings over and over again‌ do not inte rrupt us‌ ...liste n to us. When y ou were small , we had to read to y ou th e same sto ry a th ousand and one ti mes unti l y ou went to sleep.
When we do not want to have a shower, n eith er shame us n or scold us‌ .. R emember when we had to chase y ou with y our th ousand excuses to get y ou to th e shower?
When y ou see our ignorance of new te chnologies… . Help us navigate our way th rough th ese worldwide webs.. We taught y ou how to do so many th ings… To eat th e right foods, to dress appropriate ly , To fght for y our rights… .
When at some m oments we loose th e memory or th e th read of our conversati on… … .. .let us have th e n ecessary ti me ot r emember… and if we cannot, do n ot become n ervous… ..
A s th e most important th ing is not our conversati on but simply to be with y ou and to have y ou liste ning to u s… .
I f ever we do not feel like eati ng, do not f orce us. We know well when we need to and When our ti red legs when not to eat. give way and do not all ow us to walk with out a cane‌ . Lend us y our helping hand th e same way we did when y ou tr ied y our frst falte ring ste ps.
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when someday we y ou th at we don’t to live any more, at we want to die… … … . D o not get angry … . F or one day y ou will understand. Try to appreciate th at our age is not just lived but survived.
th at despite our mistakes‌ We alway s wante d th e best for y ou.. And we rt ied to prepare th e way for y ou‌ ..
You must not feel sad, angry nor ashamed f or having us near y ou. I nste ad, tr y to u nderstand us and help us like we did when y ou were y oung.
H el p u s to w al k .. H el p u s to l i ve the r est of ou r l if e w i th l ove an d dign ity .
W e w il l pay y ou w i th a sm i l e an d by the i m m en se l ove w e have al w ay s had f or y ou i n