Growing Old
Growing old is a natural phenomenon. Every living organism has to progress through it, and so do us. We start off as a baby, grow as a child and teenager, take up responsibilities as an adult and finally go back to being a baby when we are too old. But there are transitions in between - where we are transiting from one stage to another stage of life. Sometimes it might make a parent happy to see their child growing into an adult and taking up responsibilities, and sometimes it might make it hard for a person to realise and accept the fact that their parents are growing old. I am in between the same. While my parents are finally happy that I have somewhat made it and started a life of my own (at least as an eligible bachelor) after nearly two years of post-engineering struggle for clarity and unemployment, it gives me a little pain to realise and accept that my parents have started growing old. I remember there was a time, not more than five years ago, when I did not have this f...