It might be too early to write this! Because when you are in your twenties, the world around is as jubilant and carefree as you are! I am no exception too! If given a chance I would also plan and execute a trip in an hour or spend a quality time with loved ones; or can just go around for shopping; try new recipes and what not! Lot many things to do in a short span of time! Not that difficult, right? Not just me, many of us are as enthusiastic as I am or maybe more! But when this age of enthusiasm starts passing by and we slowly start bending towards the ‘old age’ physically as well as mentally, it’s certainly not easy to accomplish the aforementioned things!
The other day I saw a very old man, maybe in his 80s, begging on a crowded street! Surely, money would have pleased him temporarily at that time. Even I did what a socially responsible person was expected to do! He might not be too rich or a well organized person in his young age, which probably caused him to spend his last days on streets and suffer much more than he can afford. But if we peer around us properly, we can figure out many such men and women, who unluckily endure much more than their capacity and finally abide for their last day on the earth. I wish to give it a try to find the root cause of it.
From my personal experience, I can surely announce that parents are 0% selfish, when it comes to bright future of their children. Right from their nourishment, education, medicines to their weddings, jobs etc; parents support financially as well as emotionally to the children till their last breathe! While doing this, many of them easily or conveniently forget the ‘future planning’ and blindly go on providing money to their loving children. Till their children grow up, parents are to get retired. And it’s a well known fact that, after retirement what you get is just peanuts. And these peanuts, when kept in a convenient black box called banks’ fixed deposit, return you hardly few bucks to spend rest of the life. A surprising fact is that their children become too busy to support them financially or emotionally.
Another thing which I perceived is there are some people, though the number is small, who trust others blindly. This hesitance to thoroughly examine the case eventually brings a person in peril. Not just relatives or friends, but own children of a man sometimes don’t care for him too! Sad but true! The one who nurtured and fed them become trivial. The so called friends or relatives become age enemies in cases which are like of these. Is money worth these fights? Some may answer ‘No’ and some would go with even ‘Yes’.
If money was not that important, why would have we such a long discussion? Definitely, money is important, but not at the cost of lovely relationships! It takes ages to grow bond with people and a single word is more than enough to break a strong bond too! Knowingly or unknowingly we oft face such situations and easily ignore them, because they might not be happening to us. But you never know; the situation might be waiting at your doorstep to knock on your door!
One more reason that I strongly feel causes these misfortunes is luxury. A huge score of people has frenzy of luxury! The basic requirements to live are changed from ‘food, clothes and shelter’ to ‘fast food, branded clothes, posh house, big car, expensive hobbies, etc’ .. The list is unending. Luxuries at young age sometimes leave poverty in old age. Nine out of ten guys, when asked about their future plans, answer that they wish to buy a big house and a brand new car. It doesn’t matter if they don’t have money to buy these expensive objects, as co-operative banks are at their service anytime. Short term planning might fail in this case to fulfill the old age requirements.
There might be lot many reasons other than the ones discussed above. But as I said earlier, it’s too early for me to discuss this. Experiences and theory are way different from each other. Though not everything, old age planning is worth a shot! For it will be the only time of your life, when you will be all alone, in the crowd of humans and emotions! So don’t you fail to plan, or you may plan to fail!
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