Simplicity.

Old Folks home!

Posted on Monday, September 15, 2008, at 8:19 PM

This was certainly a different day for me..
i visited an Old Folks Home. ( actually not one, but some sort)

ok however, this was my 1st time visiting an Old Folks Home..

no, i should say that this is my 1st time visiting a Home, of any sort.

it was ceratainly a totally raw experience.
one that i never thought i would live to experience.

it was not exactly the kinda visit tt others usually will say when they visit a Home..

i mean.... when i 1st step into the canteen and look at the folks.

it was like.. pairs and pairs of sorrow souls were glazing at me..

i felt weird, uneasy i must say..

there was a total of 188 folks or we call them resident there..

188 is a LARGE sum..

there is actually so many people homeless

and u guys have to know that

there isnt only one such Home in Singapore.

Since young, stories abt ppl gg to Old Folks Home (OFH)
were that, the residents there will keep talkin to us abt their life story

but this wasnt so.....

most of the resident didnt really wanna talk..

and the few of them we wished to talk were not really understood by us

as not all or i mean only A FEW of us spoke dialgue...

hiax..

we were like playing... wat u call that "shareds?" and "Taboo"
with them.... trying to guess wat are they trying to say

just that we are using different language.

but wat strike me the hardest was

1st- their appearance...... wrinkled skin .... broken teeths....

super extremely short haird.....

it kept me thinking... we teenagers take our youth and looks for granted...

one day... just one day i will be like them...

2nd- at the Home there were sences where u will see abled residents will be pushing the

whell chair bound resident around... that really touched me..

i cant really explain the feeling in me.. but its just.......

will i end up in such a Home when i age?

most of the resident there are kind grouchy. moody etc..
why is it so? are they mad abt being left there?
i really pity them.... or should i say FEEL for them.

its like they have worked their ass off for the past few decades

and why did they work so hard for?
just do that they will be stuck in this kinda Home
where they are bored each and every day...

then they should be enjoying their Old Golden age. but instead now

suffering there?

while doing our activites with the folks..
some didnt participate...
i was just lookin at them...
they wont just look at their nails... or feet or just daze
and just let time passs..

and each and every day they do that...
its like.... each day they we wasting their time
im not cursing them
but arent they like waiting for Death to knock on the door?

i chatted with one of the resident

and i asked wat do they usually do when no one visits..
and he said. nth much just watch TV and eat
then i asked wat do they usally play
then he said..
nth, we are too old to . just some normal excerise

and one more thing tt i was taken aback
he actually called his Dorm or Room
his "HOUSE" or "HOME"
while talking
he will say'' usually after doing this we will go back HOME"
when tt word struck me.

i pictured a Home where all family memebers are there
taking care of each other lookin after each other

and having fun...
but when i thought again..
his HOME was just... a corner of the room with his bed and shelf
no offence my friend
BUT WAT KINDA HOME IS THAT!!!

WHERE IS HIS FAMILY MEMEBERS?

GUYS LET ME BEGG U
NVR TO SEND UR RELATIVE...ANY OF THEM
TO A HOME...
PLS.........

do to others what u want others to do to u!