Recently, the government had to implement the "Parents Maintenance Scheme", in order to ensure that the elderly are not neglected by their children. This helps to support the welfare of the elderly and allows the children to take care of their parents. This act wanted to let the elderly live through the rest of their lives happily and without any difficulties. It not only lets the elderly receive financial aid through their children, but also benefits them socially as they spend more time with their children. This was what it intended to do.
However, it is actually not very useful in most cases. Actually, if the individual cannot take care of his parents out of his own moral duty, through his sense of responsibility, how much difference would it make? There would be no sincerity in taking care of their parents, and they are doing it just because of the sake of the law. However, if the parents are only being provided the basic necessities, and not given any love or affection, there is no point in doing so. In fact, it is no different from rearing an animal if one does not love his parents.
So why is this happening? Youths today are getting more ambitious and want to pursue their own dreams. As they have a better quality of life and are being well taken of their parents throughout their lives, they tend to take it for granted. Some of them become so spoilt that they become extremely selfish and refuse to think for their parent, forgetting the sacrifices they have made when we were young. Thus, when we grow older, we will take our parents for granted and do not cherish them.
Look all around you. In the dog-eat-dog world today, everyone is striving to be a better person and become more competent than the rest. They would naturally want to concentrate on their work and tend to neglect their parents, ignoring the need for love that they deserved.
However, shouldn't we break out of this vicious cycle now? We should really stop and think about what our parents have done when we were young. They had taken care of us and devoted much of their time to us when we were young, so we should do the same. We should learn to cherish our precious moments with our parents and show them more love and affection. Spend more time together, pursue some hobbies, go out for some family time, do anything and everything that will make your parents happy, at least through their golden years. Merely putting food on the table for them is not good enough.
Would you like your children to do the same to you in future? Remember what your parents have done for you. We owe them a lot and it is our duty to repay them.
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