To A Better Future!!!
I had a discussion with my elder daughter these few days. As she was attached to the SAGE (for those who don’t know, it stands for Singapore Action Group of Elders), she had began to realize how bad the situation for the lowly income people.
She relate to me how an elderly man called the SAGE and was asking whether there are any free wheel chair for him as he had just been discharged from the hospital. My daughter try calling all over, the many non profit organizations, but none offer any free wheel chair, either he had to buy one or rent one. Imagine, he already had problem with surviving and where will he find the means to buy one!!! When my daughter relates the incident to me, I tried looking for a cheap one and was prepared to buy one for him, but then it seems that the case was closed and no further action was needed. No, I am not trying to say that I am so rich or so charitable, but it pulls in my heart to see that no organizations, homes charity etc can offer a free wheel chairs? AS my daughter had pointed out correctly, in the coming years, there will be more aged citizen in Singapore. I can safely say that not all these aged citizen are well to do and in fact there will be a big chunk who will find difficulties in getting such help. I can foresee many elderly who will “waste” their life always in agony and in sorrow as there are many who are “single aged”. So how?
This is something that will depend a lot on the young generation. If the younger generation does not have a compassionate heart then I see a gloomy future for this aged citizen. To all my young reader, I hope and pray that your eye will be “opened” to the need of these people. I do come across a few of the youngster with a golden heart, but these are just only a handful. Unless our youngster start developing a caring heart when they are young, then it may be too late. A CARING PERSON DOES NOT APPEAR OVERNIGHT!!! Characters need to be developed, need to be shaped, need to be moulded!!! It takes time and it takes a conscious effort to be a more compassionate person.
It things does not change, then it will become a vicious circle. Today youngster will become tomorrow aged citizen, and if today youngster does not have a compassionate heart, then they will never be able to impart such values to their next generation.
With this, I will end my blog here; hopefully it will spark some fire in some of my young readers.
She relate to me how an elderly man called the SAGE and was asking whether there are any free wheel chair for him as he had just been discharged from the hospital. My daughter try calling all over, the many non profit organizations, but none offer any free wheel chair, either he had to buy one or rent one. Imagine, he already had problem with surviving and where will he find the means to buy one!!! When my daughter relates the incident to me, I tried looking for a cheap one and was prepared to buy one for him, but then it seems that the case was closed and no further action was needed. No, I am not trying to say that I am so rich or so charitable, but it pulls in my heart to see that no organizations, homes charity etc can offer a free wheel chairs? AS my daughter had pointed out correctly, in the coming years, there will be more aged citizen in Singapore. I can safely say that not all these aged citizen are well to do and in fact there will be a big chunk who will find difficulties in getting such help. I can foresee many elderly who will “waste” their life always in agony and in sorrow as there are many who are “single aged”. So how?
This is something that will depend a lot on the young generation. If the younger generation does not have a compassionate heart then I see a gloomy future for this aged citizen. To all my young reader, I hope and pray that your eye will be “opened” to the need of these people. I do come across a few of the youngster with a golden heart, but these are just only a handful. Unless our youngster start developing a caring heart when they are young, then it may be too late. A CARING PERSON DOES NOT APPEAR OVERNIGHT!!! Characters need to be developed, need to be shaped, need to be moulded!!! It takes time and it takes a conscious effort to be a more compassionate person.
It things does not change, then it will become a vicious circle. Today youngster will become tomorrow aged citizen, and if today youngster does not have a compassionate heart, then they will never be able to impart such values to their next generation.
With this, I will end my blog here; hopefully it will spark some fire in some of my young readers.
posted by Sebastian Chu at 11:46 AM
