Contenido audiovisual, recopilado de: Gustavo Elis, Youtube:
En muchos otros lugares, optan por dejar a los adultos mayores en un geriátrico y de verdad que admiro profundamente a las personas que allí los atienden y cumplen esta labor con amor y pasión, recuerdo en mi época de la universidad, tuve la oportunidad de cumplir con el servicio comunitario en un geriátrico en la Cañada Maracibo, fuimos hacer una primera visita y un diagnóstico de sus necesidades.
La siguiente visita fuimos preparados para cortar el cabello, hacerle manicure y pedicura, llevamos comida, pero también fuimos con mucho amor para dar, aún recuerdo una señora de algunos 80 0 90 años con su cabello totalmente blanco y que al entrar su mirada y la mía se impregnaron, automáticamente se convirtió mi favorita, mi hizo recordar a mi bisabuela, ella me causo mucha ternura. Fue una experiencia increíble y es que existe tanta sabiduría en esos lugares, que causa una inmensa tristeza saber que muy poco son escuchados.
Demás está decirles que en nuestro encuentro hubo lágrimas y cambio de concepciones, es fácil juzgar a un adulto mayor o no comprender a nuestros padres y ser hasta algo severos con ellos, pero ¿qué sucede cuando vemos la vida a través de su mismo cristal? Nos damos cuenta que debemos ser empáticos y reflexionar que la vida es un pañuelo, que da muchas vueltas y que siempre es muy grato ser tratado con amor. Así que nunca es tarde para decir un Te Amo aunque des por sentado que ellos lo saben, siempre es bonito escucharlo o leerlo nuevamente.
De ante mano agradezco el que dediques parte de tu valioso tiempo para leer mi trabajo y que Dios te multiplique el apoyo que le aportes a mi publicación. Bendiciones
Todas las fotos utilizadas aquí son de mi propiedad y fueron tomadas con la cámara de mi teléfono Redmi Note 9T. El diseño fue realizado con la aplicación GridArt.
VERSIÓN EN INGLÉS
CULTIVATING LOVE AND RESPECT FOR OUR PARENTS [ESP-ENG]
For a long time, I feel that every step I am taking in this earthly world is aligned to a specific goal, it has happened to you that suddenly your days are similar in the different environments where you move, that the things of home, work and society itself seems to have conspired to go all to the same point or teaching of life.
Many of the
initiatives proposed by my friend
@angelica7, in her
Talent Encounter program to participate on Tuesdays through the
@EmpowerTalent community, have gone hand in hand with my different spaces and I definitely visualize it as something divine in which I need to work and perfect.
For some time now I have told you that I meet with a group of girls to orient and guide them in some specific topics according to their own needs, for this we make use of the interactive reading of a book, for now we are reading one titled "Love is for the brave" by the author Itiel Arroyo, it is the second book of this author that we read and let me tell you that we love the fresh way of his writing.
For each meeting we designate a chapter and precisely on Saturday we met and shared chapter 7 "Crown your Parents", on the cover of this chapter there is a quote from the same author that says "The way you treat your elders defines you before God". Extrapolating this message I would say that we are an open letter to the world, so we must respect, love and understand our fellow men, in this I would summarize the value of "Empathy".
My father has always told me "daughter, a man who loves and cares for his mother is an excellent husband" and it makes a lot of sense, if we cannot love and care for the woman who brought us into the world, we will hardly have the ability to implement these feelings with someone in our environment.
There are so many cases that I have visualized in the society where we live of children who abandon their fathers, who do not value them in life and after not being physically present, they want to die crying at their funeral because they cannot stand the subconscious telling them "You were a bad son and you did not value him".
Unfortunately time is something ephemeral that we cannot stop or return, that is why my invitation in that meeting was to cultivate that love for our elders, how many people lack patience for the elderly in terms of handling technology, we explain to them reluctantly and with bad gestures, without understanding that they have accompanied us since our first steps, they supported us in the educational process, in our illnesses and every step of our day to day, they are there as a latent shadow telling you daughter or son remember that I am always there for you.
This same book gives us a statistic about the NGO in Spain, where it mentions that 60% of the elderly live alone, very few are visited by their children and I can see that here in my community, I have a neighbor of more than 60 years old with 2 daughters, one is out of the country and has 5 children, where the oldest of them is barely 10 years old and the youngest is 3, they are under her care and she lives in a critical situation, The other is the oldest and lives here in town and does not even visit her, this is a life situation that wrinkles my heart and more for the closeness I have with them, because I am aware that there are many people like her in the world, but as long as my husband and I can share with her part of our food, I feel that I can teach our children to be humble and empathetic people.
I can't write without stopping sharing this beautiful and thoughtful music video Audiovisual content, collected from Gustavo Elis, Youtube:
In many other places, they choose to leave the elderly in a nursing home and I really admire deeply the people who take care of them and fulfill this work with love and passion, I remember in my college days, I had the opportunity to fulfill the community service in a nursing home in Cañada Maracibo, we went to make a first visit and a diagnosis of their needs.
The next visit we were prepared to cut hair, manicure and pedicure, we took food, but we also went with a lot of love to give, I still remember a lady of some 80 or 90 years with her hair totally white and when she entered her gaze and mine were impregnated, she automatically became my favorite, she reminded me of my great grandmother, she caused me much tenderness. It was an incredible experience and there is so much wisdom in those places, that it causes immense sadness to know that very little is heard.
Needless to say, during our meeting there were tears and a change of conceptions, it is easy to judge an older adult or not understand our parents and be even somewhat severe with them, but what happens when we see life through their same glass? We realize that we must be empathetic and reflect that life is a handkerchief, that it takes many turns and that it is always very pleasant to be treated with love. So it's never too late to say I love you even if you take it for granted that they know it, it's always nice to hear it or read it again.
I thank you in advance for dedicating part of your valuable time to read my work and may God multiply the support you give to my publication. Blessings.
All photos used here are my property and were taken with the camera of my Redmi Note 9T phone. The design was made with the GridArt application.