Remember......

Dorothy has left Teluk Intan for two weeks already. She's a grand old lady of more than eighty years old. I have known her for more than fifty years, and i can't imagine that, at this great age, she has to leave this little quiet town and resettle in noisy busy city of Petaling Jaya. I always thought that most senior citizens would retire in small quiet towns like Teluk Intan or Kampar or even Bidor, but i thought wrong. We retirees are so set in our ways that we won't find it easy to readjust to life in new places. However, readjust to new places we must when we find ourselves in a situation like Dorothy. Living all alone in a house when one is old is certainly not recommended. The amount of housework we have to do on our own sometimes boggles me....cooking,washing, dusting, wiping, even gardening. There's no one willing to do these chores even if one is willing to pay for these services. So, we have to do all these on our own. Also, our mobility is limited nowadays. We have to learn to do things slower than before. We have to learn to take little rests in between our chores, lest we get tired...and we certainly get tired easily.
I am thinking of myself at the moment. Will i have to make this choice in twenty years' time if God grace me with another twenty years of life? I don't know. But i hope i don't have to make this choice...i am praying that i would be healthy still till that day. One thing i learnt from this...life is nver certain....we need to learn to take life one day at a time. Making plans is when you are young. Now that you are old, live your life to the fullest for the day. We will never know what tomorrow will bring............