WHEN PARENTS GET OLD …
Let them grow old with the same love that they let you grow …
let them speak and tell repeated stories with the same patience and interest that they heard yours as a child …
let them overcome, like so many times when they let you win …
let them enjoy their friends just as they let you
let them enjoy the talks with their grandchildren because they see you in them …
let them enjoy living among the objects that have accompanied them for a long time because they suffer when they feel that you tear pieces of this life away …
let them be wrong, like so many times you have been wrong and they didn’t embarrass you by correcting you …
LET THEM LIVE and try to make them happy on the last stretch of the path they have left to go; give them your hand, just like they gave you their hand when you started your path!
“Honor your mother and father and your days shall be long upon the earth”