Elderly care has always been a social issue, especially in rural areas. It is said that raising children will provide for old age, but no one dares to say that all sons raised are filial. No matter how many unfilial sons there are, it is sad.
Ten years ago, I returned to my hometown in the countryside. After lunch, I stood at the door and looked around. I saw a person in the distance, holding a small wooden stool, supporting the ground with his hands, moving a few times and sitting for a while, moving forward with difficulty. I looked carefully and saw that she was an old lady. She couldn't move her legs. She...she was an aunt from my family! I couldn't believe my eyes! how so?
I wanted to step forward...but my heart seemed to be weighed down by a thousand pounds of stones. My eyes were blurred by tears and I was speechless.
As for my aunt’s situation, I once heard my mother say that not long after my uncle passed away, she also suffered from cerebral thrombosis and could not take care of herself. Her two sons took turns taking care of her for meals. I thought that my son and daughter-in-law would take turns bringing her food or taking her home to take care of her, but I didn’t expect that she would be allowed to crawl over to eat by herself!
I didn’t dare to go up and say hello, so I went back to the house in tears. What can I say? Although we are from the same family, we are of the same clan after all. Can I go find those two cousins ??and reprimand them and ask them to deliver meals to the elderly every day? I don't have that much ability. But my aunt used to be very kind to me. When she saw me, she would always call me by my nickname and give me some advice, and sometimes she would give me delicious food. I haven't seen her for several years. Who would have thought to see her again? She is already a miserable old man with paralyzed lower limbs, sitting on the ground and moving around!
I couldn’t believe my eyes. It was at least five hundred meters from her old house to the new home of her two sons! Three meals a day and let the old man drag half of his body back and forth on the road with his hands? You are probably used to seeing so many relatives and neighbors. Who wants to take care of other people's housework?
When I mentioned this to my family, they just sighed. The mother scolded her son and daughter-in-law as nothing, but how could outsiders control her?
When I write this now, I still feel sad! I will never forget the scene of the aunt sitting on the floor going to her son’s house for dinner!