When we are young and enjoying life, we sometimes fail to see what is really beautiful and important.  But when we reach the age when young people do not even set a glance on us, we begin to look at things on the other side.  During our younger days we are sometimes too engrossed with the material things that we often forget that there are more important things around than that sleek car we are eagerly dreaming to buy.   The people around us and the simple things they do to us and all that they share us are often missed and what we value more are the things that could satisfy our wants.

When we grow older, we look at things around us more differently than when we were younger.  We mature and we become more open minded.  The things we considered annoying and disgusting when we were young becomes merely part of life that we can understand and accept when we get old.  And what we see around as merely frivolous things are considered as vital as the other things.  There seems to be so much of all the things around and only the people who do not know how to appreciate would look at the things around as they are.  But to a seasoned person who has seen too much in life, everything has its importance and a beauty that it possesses.

The years we had passed in our lives become part of what we become when we get old.  All those years, those memorable years will come rushing into our minds then become merely patches that were part of our life yesterday.    We all have times when we look behind our younger years and reminisce our good old days.  We grow old everyday thinking how much time we had lost if we didn’t make good in our life.  But if we did do our best when we were younger and we enjoyed life, we have no reason to be repentant about the past.

Sometimes though we get so carried away about our feelings as old people when children flock around us and think what we should do is merely sit down and watch them do their activities.  They are forgetting that old men and women aren’t invalid who content themselves sitting on the hard bench and watching the youngsters run and bustle with activities around.

I am not yet that old to be so sentimental about this matter regarding older people but time will come when I too would be feeling the old people’s depression.  This seems to be the problem of most older people, when they think they are taken for granted by their children and their grandchildren.

If you look around and think of a better thing to do than sit and watch, perhaps the young generation will reconsider and bring to attention what your problem is and perhaps there will still be time for you to enjoy and be part of the new generation.

As old people, we cannot be as vibrant and alive as the young people but we can enjoy life and say to ourselves, “I am not yet useless.”

Old people cannot avoid feeling down when their children have already their own families and they are left on their own but this isn’t a reason at all to feel abandoned. 

I know old men and women in their 70’s and 80’s who are still very active and are still enjoying life.  They go ball room dancing, walk around the park, play bingo and play slot machines.  They have so much in their hands to busy themselves and forget about hard-feelings.