Comments on: Our Activities http://www.pect.in pect.in Wed, 27 Sep 2017 08:04:24 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: JOSHI Urvashi http://www.pect.in/photo-gallery/comment-page-1/#comment-7 JOSHI Urvashi Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:38:51 +0000 http://www.rnimit.swa/?page_id=3#comment-7 I want to share my experience......I was on my way to visit a home for the aged during a school trip, wondering how I would feel when I saw them and how they live away from their families. I have heard and read a lot about the good care of old people on TV and magazines but this painted a much nicer picture than the reality I found. We spoke to the patients and heard about the food they are given and the place they live in and I found their plight tragic. One old man cried as he told us how he used to sacrifice everything for his children and his children's gift to him in return was to throw him in the old-age home, never to visit him. They all long to return to their homes and live with their family. They feel cheated after all the years of love and care they had given to their children, but their children seems to have left them to their fate. God has instructed man on the treatment of his parents in the Holy Qur'an, Bible & in Gita many times, and respect for parents is one of the good deeds to enter paradise. Our parents sacrificed everything for our happiness and future. So it is improper to act as if they deserve no respect and love. Every person who puts a parent in a home for the aged should ask: How will I feel if my children did the same to me when I am old? I wish i was there at this moment........ really miss them all. I want to share my experience……I was on my way to visit a home for the aged during a school trip, wondering how I would feel when I saw them and how they live away from their families. I have heard and read a lot about the good care of old people on TV and magazines but this painted a much nicer picture than the reality I found.

We spoke to the patients and heard about the food they are given and the place they live in and I found their plight tragic. One old man cried as he told us how he used to sacrifice everything for his children and his children’s gift to him in return was to throw him in the old-age home, never to visit him. They all long to return to their homes and live with their family. They feel cheated after all the years of love and care they had given to their children, but their children seems to have left them to their fate.

God has instructed man on the treatment of his parents in the Holy Qur’an, Bible & in Gita many times, and respect for parents is one of the good deeds to enter paradise. Our parents sacrificed everything for our happiness and future. So it is improper to act as if they deserve no respect and love. Every person who puts a parent in a home for the aged should ask: How will I feel if my children did the same to me when I am old? I wish i was there at this moment…….. really miss them all.

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