Some Reflection Today this early while morning I was lying in bed just reflecting on some thoughts over last Ramadan that I had done some voluntary charity work near my house at a elderly nursing home which I very much wanted to do for some tym and wht could be the best tym during Ramadan.When I went there I was taken to the rooms to get myself introduce.I will never forgot that day whr I saw some very fragile elderly sitting and crying alone, with broken hearts and no hope.I was told no one visits them.All I could see there in that essence of tym that they needed our love.. our touch ...our warm smiles.As soon as I went toward one particular elderly I approach her witha smile and shook her hand in a very tender manner. I could see that she stopped crying and looked up at me with a smile and I could see that sparkle in her eyes and she said to me I am old. I sat beside her and after some tym spending with her wen she was comfortable wth me I help her change her clothes comb her hair did a little bit makeup on her face. I could sense that she was just longing for someone to be beside her.I hug her & assured her that things will be fine.Like this everyday I use to spend 5 hrs of my day volunteering & caring for the elderly, like helping them eat their breakfast, giving then a bath,talking to them dressing them up watching television with them. But this experience had thought me a lot abt human value. Especially vulnerable elderly ppl.The life I touch for good or ill will surely touch another life, and that in turn another who knows wen the trembling will stops or in wht far place my touch will be felt.They need our love desperately.The cause of loneliness in the elderly are obvious, I notice but for sme reason we overlook them. Most importantly, the elderly often are embarrassed scared and feel they cant tell anyone because someone might think they are losing their minds and need to be in a nursing home.Especially these days you hear so much rubbish that children put their parents in the nursing home because there dont want to take responseability they find their parents as burden for their selfish reasons.I would like to ask these shameful children who do this to they parents that are their forgetting that one day they two will grow old.And surely what goes around will come around and it will catch up with them.I have found so much affection with someone whom I didnt know at all & now I see them as my family member.And wen I use to return home from the nursing home i always had this strong sense of feeling and contentment that I have achieved & gained something good frm doing this. I mean real goodness & satisfaction. I still go occasionally and vist them I take some fresh flowers with chocolate or cakes biscuits we sit and have coffee together.Inshallah I will do it this Ramadan too. As I am going away so it will be for 2 wks wen I return back. Inshaallsh am looking very much looking forward to do that again soon. Sayeda Zehra Hussein.
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 19:56:43 +0000
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