OLD~- GOLD

Old Age...
It was my first year, ‘Lady Sri Ram’ BA in Psychology... and Boy was I happy. My deep seated interest, perhaps for the comfort scene that it symbolizes, was to get hired at an old age home as a counsellor. Though now it makes me think... Is there an automatic presumption here that senior citizens need support? Let’s see...
The first teacher I truly humbly loved at LSR was Parul ma’am. Take me back someone! (*sniffs loud*)...she took General Psychology and introduced me to the term – Gerontology. Studies about old people.
I didn’t explore any further, not because seemingly I lost interest(?)... But because the fast turmoil that finding direction can sometimes become... simply sticking to syllabus and day-to-day work was accomplishment enough. As a psychology graduate 6 years later, my agenda here indeed, is to just dedicate an article to heavenly ideas that my mother sometimes devise!
She takes it that since the real work of parents finishes when the kids take smilingly to their OWN lives, anything that comes n the way of settling couples and parents needs to be tackled. No(!), PLEASE don’t just presume that she is being All-super good since her idea seems to reflect the Western world’s “I’d rather be own my own” stuff, mostly judged as ‘attitude’ or ‘individualistic’ arenas. Ahem.
So what exactly should this refer? This is to convey that should any sincere newly wed couple, so to say the ‘newer generation’, seek to devote finer energy support to career and family (considering the hurdles even these seem to have become!), sitting and showing the positive side of shifting to an old age home might serve the purpose in less ‘inhumane’ fashion as depicted in most bollywood and even real-indian scene. This doesn’t undermine the sacred scene of joint families, the fun of seeing one’s grandkids everyday, and the simple availability of everyday elderly nick picks-cum-suggestions-cum-guidance... this is to highlight that some parents INDEED would prefer having their own-like company, sharing black-and-white screen days, making efforts to stay active (which could get overshadowed by fast urban life often seen as ‘better’), making an assumption that their kids are indeed comfortably set into their schedules and serving nation and community as offshoots of their sincere hardwork.
Thanks everyone for taking time to read the undeveloped nestling hovering idea... Since the ‘empty nest syndrome’ seems to have been chirped about way too often- to see the other side of coin. Thanks!