The experiences of life, translated…
When my seventy-eight year-old grandmother tripped and broke her femur, after the surgery, she still couldn’t regain her ability to walk, I’d finally realized, that how trying it was, to have an elderly at home who’d become, immobilized, that it’s, even trying, for the siblings to handle.
And so, I’d started, imagining mom and dad in the future, when one day, mom and dad became elderly like grandma, would we be, ready for it?
There are, five siblings in my family, and in this society of decline in birthrate, we’re probably, a very odd family, and, as the few of us just, started working, I’d wanted to, help set up a care fund for my parents, before it’d become, burdensome to us all.
As our parents marched toward their elderly years, being the middle generation, we’re stuck, in the middle, as the “sandwich generation”, and we’d totally, become, too stressed out, to take care of everybody that we loved, to the point, of not having enough time, to look after our parents; especially as a daughter, I can’t deal with the fact, that I might feel, too stressed over how I’d wanted to help my family members, but couldn’t.
After I’d discussed the matter with my three sisters and my younger brother, we’d all agreed on the methods, and we’d also, decided, to put thoughts into actions, by setting up a common fund. And this, would be the way, we show our love toward our parents, and can we manage it perfectly, we can only, take the instances at they’d come then.
So, this, is what the generations are currently faced with, because of the impacts from the decline in birth rate, and how the elderly are living, longer than before, that, is why every family needs a plan like the siblings here had set up, so the parents will be looked after, even AFTER the kids had all, flown from the nest.
Life, the Obstacle Course 