24/01/2026
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WHEN PARENTS GET OLD …✍🏽
Let them grow old with the same love they let you grow with. They once carried you when you couldn’t stand. They fed you when you couldn’t feed yourself. They protected you when you didn’t even know danger existed. Now… time has reversed the roles.
Let them speak. Let them tell the same stories again and again with the same patience, the same attention, the same interest they had when you spoke nonsense as a child. They listened. Now it’s your turn.
Let them win sometimes, just like they let you win. Let them feel capable. Let them feel respected. Let them feel that they still matter. Because old age is not painful only in the body, it is painful in dignity.
Let them enjoy their friends, just as they once allowed you to enjoy yours. Let them laugh loudly. Let them remember loudly. Let them live slowly. They have earned that right.
Let them enjoy time with their grandchildren, because in those small faces they see you again. They remember who they were. They remember why they endured so much.
Let them live among the objects that have followed them through life. The old chair. The old radio. The cracked cup. The worn blanket. These are not “things” to them. They are memories. They are pieces of their soul. When you take them away carelessly, you tear pieces of their life away.
Let them be wrong sometimes, just like you were wrong many times and they corrected you gently, privately, with love. Not with embarrassment. Not with shouting. Not with impatience.
LET THEM LIVE. Not just exist. Not just survive. But live. Try to make them happy in the last stretch of the road they have left. Walk slower. Talk softer. Listen longer. Visit more. Hug tighter.
One day their chair will be empty. Their room will be silent. Their phone will stop ringing. And you will wish you had one more chance to sit, to listen, to hold their hand.
So give them your hand now, just like they gave you theirs when you could not walk. Give them your patience, just like they gave you theirs when you could not understand. Give them your love, just like they gave you theirs when you could not repay it.