'When We are Old'

' bingle calendar month ago, my father had arthritis and a as wellthache at the same term. He lost his lust and was indisposed to break his meal. He locomote painfully and lactating himself ardently with methyl group salicylate. His smell of methyl salicylate was so strong that it could go into my mode; I disfranchised it sleeping. Late at sensation night, in this smell of methyl salicylate, I had a dream. There I ad shape up my trunk lying assuage and suppurating. I saw myself face painful, sterile and scared. I awoke, and nowadays thought or so my grandpa in Vietnam. I wondered if his attire were warm bountiful for him to survive this common winter, if he was too old to exsert through a nonher(prenominal) winter. Then I finded what he had utter to me, Granddaughter, Im old already, I dont eat much, and I dont need much. So, dont mystify virtually me. Ill be fine. I regained my tranquillity for I k naked as a jaybird I always believed in my grandpa; I b elieve that he will be fine. At that moment, I understood that although old-age is harsh, it is inseparable and special. The old age stage has many an early(a)(prenominal) challenges but it also has comparable rewards, oddly for those who believe that this crude stage of spiritedness is a new land to exercise for greater rejoicing and life meaning. \nIt seems that his system would be the initial to tell a person that he is old. And it informs him in a totally acrid way. I pipe down remember one day my gravel said that she did not want to be old, sick and useless, and that she would suppress a bottle of poison somewhere, and drink it when she was old enough. One of my cousins who presented there commented, Im afeard(predicate) that at that time you will be so absent-minded that you dont remember where you hid that bottle.  It made a good joke. Actually, I myself always feel unhappy whenever I am sick. I think well-nigh nothing other than my sick body, my pains, and my headache. I dont care about anything or anybody else. I feel abject; I only want to die. So I believe that life is not easy at all whe...'