Growing old
July 12th, 2006 by eeffrin1709To be able to sit at home, water my plants, change my fish tank water, update my blog, nap, spend time with family, watch tv, read the books i like, all these are indeed luxuries, a blessing i better appreciate and enjoy to the fullest now because they are not going to last very long.
today, i went to see my great-grandaunt, she’s staying at the Villa Francis, a home for old folks. quite impressed with the scale of the building, big, many levels, many rooms on each level, and many beds in each room. when i saw my great-grandaunt, her weakness and frailness caught my attention. she was one whom many people used to always say "wow, she doesn’t look her age, she looks so young and healthy and strong still…" but today when i saw her, she looked old, lonely, nothing much to look forward to.
made me wonder about how she must be feeling now. and also made me think about how i would be in my old age, or would i even live that old. made me realize that growing old is an inevitable reality. and that if i’m given the opportunity to grow old, i would want to live my old age years graciously. today i really saw how growing old is so important, because this is the period of time that a person prepares himself/herself to leave this world (the people and the things) and look forward to the next. of course being a Christian, to prepare to meet God, the purpose of why we even started living on earth. i guess the physical deterioration of the body is, in a certain way, preparing us for this transition because this deterioration makes real the coming of the end of the earthly life, which also indicates the start of another life, the heavenly one.
