Translated…
For the sake of our father’s health, we’d tried, really hard, to get him to kick a couple of his bad habits, but, until he sees the red on his health exams, he wouldn’t be bothered by it.
He’d often drunk the sweetened three-in-one coffees, and he’d needed to, add extra servings of sugars; he’d loved pickled foods, or can foods; wakes up late in the day, causing him to be more and more energetic as the night draws in; and he’d loved having his midnight snacks with television, causing the entire family to not follow the regular sleep schedules.
My dad could no longer put up with our nagging him, he’d once shouted at us angrily, he is already in his eighties, and has long-term conditions, and, heaven knows how much time he has, he just wanted to live out the rest of his life happy and pleasurably. Thinking hard on his words, dad is right too; perhaps, being a bit more lenient toward theses “elderly children”, and try to put up with his, bad habits!
And so, this just shows, how sometimes your cares and concerns can become misconstrued as nagging, like this man here, he’s already in his elderly years, and yeah, watching what he eats is very important in the stage of HIS life, but, if you think about it, how many MORE years does he have? Limited, and so, why not, just allow the elderly in your household, to just DO what s/he wants to, and STOP bugging them about, having a healthy diet, they’d eaten the way they’d eaten, and that’s led them to this age already, and, how many MORE years do you think the elderly population would have? Twenty, thirty, forty? A decade, to less than that? So, just LET go, and just let them all BE!
Life, the Obstacle Course 