Care of oldie parents

 A few messages are viral. Cooked up stories of "busy, rich, migrated " children realising that they missed to "give back the care, love and affection" to their parents. The "timing" of realisation is dramatised...... "funeral"...😜🙏

Indeed a few adult children do_get_moved, and might even resolve to "make-amends" ( or whatever). But such emotions aren't going to last 😂.

I thought, let me "risk" a disrepute ( inviting criticism) from most ones around, especially oldies 😜🙏....but, I seek consolation in having 'tried' to revive the lost glory of ancient desi tradition.

I copy paste my reply I tried to 'compose'in reply to that 'forward. I changed my mind and decided to blog it, without sugar coating it 🙏

Most probably just a fictional story. ( That viral story) 

Our ancients NEVER subscribed to such emotions ( seeking or persuading gratitude from children 😂).

This, ...if I speak aloud today, I would only invite disrepute unto myself 🙏😜

Vaanaprastha is the easiest evidence.

Strongest evidence is, even today, no animal, bird, etc 'takes care of its aged parents'. Not in the 'scheme' of things.

Reverence towards elders got replaced with taking care of physical infirmities in aged 'fools'. An act of empathy, deterioration into sympathy. Over a period of time, sympathy became a 'right' in the corrupt minds of aged fools, like we got used to 'freebies' from govt as a right, not ex-gratia 😂.

Now, the assertiveness nurtured an ill will, and paved the way for "old age homes"🙏😜

Being in a particular way, deserving it due to being_so, and getting the due therefore (care, respect being incidental to Reverence 🙏)

Got reversed .

Wanting a payback for emotional love, demanding it as a right,  as a return for investment..... fetched only 'materialistic_compensation' since Reverence & love cannot be mandated by enactment 😜

Honestly yours,

psn(21 Feb 2026)

Postscript Punch : Think/visualise oneself to be deserving "Reverence '.... Care, respectfully is during lifetime & seeking of blessings will be during shraadha_ceremoney for a 100% experiential reason 😜( if visualising seems to convince, then strive to deserve Reverence. By-product do not work as the main purpose of a factory 😜