Apparently August 24 is the World Elderly Citizen day. Not many know of it. Not many would celebrate it even if they knew it. Actually, it needs huge celebration , especially because the elderly no longer enjoy the respect reserved for them traditionally.
Earlier, as per the tradition, the elderly were supposed to be the repository of wisdom. Their authentic experience born(e) awareness was valued. No longer is that the scenario. It is mostly believed that the older are lost (in)to a warp in time. They are not in touch with the current realities.
Hence the title of this blog. Everything they do, speak, behave is elderly. Elderly is, in brief, a short form for irrelevant, useless, worthy of throwing away.
Actually it is absolutely not so. Let us look at a few examples. A typical granny would advise you to go for a tall glass of warm milk (or water, if you hate the very smell of milk) with turmeric powder, two or three black pepper seeds, a few fennel seeds and a few shreds of cinnamon. The best drink it us, eespecially if you add a spoonful jaggery to it.
Those who love to guzzle coke or beer would sure find the traditional concoction boring. Brainless actually they are coz they think elderly is the drink as the elderly are. Actually, in the West, this health drink is much preferred!
In fact, I would say that the elderly these days hardly try to advise the young who anyways are never going to listen. Instead they choose to live a life of their own. They enjoy hugely all sorts of positivities.They are tech savvy, too.
They live life on their own terms instead of being dismissed or discarded by the so-called young. Their mantra is 'elderly is as elderly does"!
Pratima@ Why waste your invaluable wor(l)ds on callow stupidities of the not-so-young? Instead live life king-size, eh, elderly-n-wise!
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