Supernatural Powers, which means having some kind of extraordinary powers to get things done easily? No, here by supernatural I mean having that power which a woman holds in her life. We have always heard a mother taking care of her child or parents struggling to help their child grow. A normal child or disabled, a child is a child to their parents and they take care of them equally. They accept them as they are born and make sure they give the same love they would give if the child was normal.
I have a question regarding the same. Do you think these days the children are not taking much care of their elderly parents? I have seen many who just do not care for them and keep them at old age homes and even these homes have become luxurious for the stay. Why not? when their own son/daughter are not ready to take care of them who had once held their hand while growing up. Amidst all these I have also met few of them especially daughters who have struggled since childhood taking care of their parents. There are parents who have been ill or physically not fit but still they decide to marry and have children. Undoubtedly they become the best parents and I love to see their children who are born normal but take care of their parents so well just like a child being taken care of. Handling such parents is difficult since you are a child but when you grow up it is your major responsibility to see them, help them and share the same love they had given you while you were born. Being weak does not give you the freedom to throw your parents away to old age homes just so that you can enjoy your life. I have seen our generation daughters playing the best role of a mother to her mother and despite of this entire, she also becomes a good wife and a daughter in law.
She struggles between two families, not because she is not supported by her new family but struggle to take care of both. The highest honor is to take care of your parents during their old times. To walk while holding their hand and to let them feel the same love like we received when we were a child. It takes a strong mind and definitely supernatural power to handle them if they are not being able to live a normal life. It is not easy to balance your life by not sacrificing on your personal dreams and wishes. It takes a lot of strength to hold back and prioritize what is important. Only few from this generation are capable of accepting the fact of life and happily living with it instead of running away or staying away without your parents who actually need us. It is sometimes when not we but when parents need us. If we in this generation cannot do such thing then I am sure one has no right to expect anything from our children or say the next generation kids. What you sow is what you reap. Loving them unconditional will always be blessing.
To the ones who have been taking care of their parents. I salute them for the gratitude they show and the ones who do not do this I request you to kindly seek yourself and change towards being good to your parents. We watch movies, read stories which portrays about parents taking care of their child, why not we reverse the scenario and start taking care of our elderly.
PS: Caregiving often calls us to lean in love, we didn’t know possible.
