Run Where You Please

No one expects you in your senior years to run……anywhere. Physically no…. you can’t really run, not like the younger ones who not as fleet of foot as the youth, can still run to work up a sweat.

But mentally or emotionally?

Yes, you can run, as far as you want. In your imagination, you can run in fields, along the beach, wherever you fancy. You are only limited by the boundaries of your imagination.

However, an elderly person who has been abandoned, for instance can choose to run, in his mind, to a place where no one can communicate with him. He presents a calm exterior, his expressionless eyes reveal nothing. His face is impassive. He doesn’t talk, he doesn’t smile. Physically he is there and yet not there. He functions mechanically. Who knows what he is thinking or if he is thinking at all.

If you have done all you can for your family, given them all you have and then have them abandon you to the mercies of Life, if you were to think of their callousness, their ingratitude, surely “that way madness lies” as King Lear realized when he found himself in the untenable situation of being cast out into the storm by his ungrateful daughters to whom he had given everything.

It is not an exaggeration to say that many elderly people have found themselves in such a situation, that of being brushed aside after having been milked of all their assets.

To avoid such a situation it would be prudent to be selfish and to retain your assets for yourselves so that you can be independent and live the lifestyle you choose in your old age.

Once your children have become adults and are working, you are not beholden to provide for them anymore nor to give them handouts or monetary assistance even if there is a request. You have cared for them all their lives. Now it’s your turn to relax and enjoy your golden years in ease. They have to make their own way and learn to fend for themselves, just as you had to when you were young.


Whatever you still have left, after your demise, can be given to them as stipulated in your will. So enjoy your hard-earned retirement and live the way you please. It’s time you indulge yourselves. Run where you please.

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