DEAR LIFE AFTER SIXTY

1. Desire to live longer increases
2. Very particular about food.
3. Doctor’s visit are frequent
4. Checking of bp(blood pressure) , blood sugar and lipids are very frequent.
5. Medicines are taken regularly if free or if the bills are borne by Mediclaim, sons, or son- in-laws.
6. Visits to foreign lands or outside states are frequent as the tickets are sent by son or son-in-law.
7. Starts his life as a better dressed person as dresses are sent to him by the same group as above including jogging shoes, belt.
8. Take advantage of railway concession for that reason travel frequently by trains.
9. Starts enjoying new and vulgar movies
10. Television becomes the best friend.
11. Stops drinking and smoking as the desire to live become more intense.
12. Spends most of his or her time waiting for the son or daughter to come to India(may be for few days)
13. Forgets all their sorrows after their arrival.
14. Son or the daughter asking for their favourite dish to be cooked by mother(just to please her), the grand children vomits at the site of these Indian food)
15. Boxes of mineral water are purchased, used as mouth wash and face wash.
16. Due to time zone the grand children sleeps most of the time when the old couple are awake.
17. One of the children invariably falls sick, and there is a frantic search for a good pediatrician and what ever he prescribes is cross checked with the USA/ UK doctor.
18. The short stay is punctured by vomiting, fever, heat fever, dysentery, pain abdomen, allergy, insect bites, etc.
19. Poor old couple feels sad about the whole trip and accompany the children up to the last air port.
20. Spends hours watching the video of children and granchildren after their departure.(video taken by daughter in law or son- in-law, and the camera is left behind as its an old model one.)
21. Wait again for their next trip, who knows?? They will be living or not, but the life goes on with the old couple.
22. There are hundred of thousands of these old couple in India; this one is dedicated to them.