The discrepancy

It's a dog eat dog world and I'm sad to conclude that once you're old and can't do anything to contribute to the society, you're relegated to the category of being left alone to die. I suppose it wouldn't be true if you're really wealthy and have enough to pay for all the old-age luxuries that perhaps more than half of the aged in this world can't afford, such as some really expensive old-age home or those long, luxurious holidays across the world that most can only dream of.

Everyday, I see this huge discrepancy. Chinatown is set amidst the symbol of a growing city. Town and the CBD. Within this place itself, there are prospering businesses though small and of course, the subordinate courts where every single day, new law reforms and decisions are put into place. However, even in all this cosmopolitan going-ons, I see old people, some barely able to stand up straight or feed themselves, some in such a decrepit state that you really just not know what to say, living out the remainder of their lives in more pain than possibly joy. I get scared looking at all of it, because it's such a huge irony. To see an old neighbourhood being left behind despite all the advancements.

I'm scared of growing old even though I know, I've got such a long time more to go. I don't ever want to become useless and when I die, I want to be doing something useful, or something that I enjoy. I want to be with the ones that I love, possibly sitting somewhere in the remote countryside of england in my armchair, reminscing about what I've learnt in life. I don't want to be alone, collecting paper cartons or anything like that. Know what I mean?

It's such a materialistic thought. But it seems that everywhere, or perhaps it's just in this society that once you grow old, you're regarded as useless.