[I can't bear to think how it will be like when I am old...]
Just read this article from: The New Paper Sad case of S'pore doctor who dumped cleaner mum Chinese New Year Celebrations is about family reunions and renewals but this Chinese New Year has brought me face to face with the realities of an ageing population.It's not a abstract idea that somewhere out there, people are getting old,our population is ageing. Reality does bites when you see it happens in your own family. And this topic has been evolving around my family during this Chinese New Year period. The news report is about a doctor who locked out his widowed mother from his flat.This woman, now 66, worked as a cleaner to put her son through medical school. 'I was the proudest woman in the auditorium that day,' she said of his convocation. Two years ago, she transfered ownership of her flat to him. He threw her out a day later. Why? Because she wanted to continue working as a cleaner, and his wife did not like it. My goodness. A doctor who earns more than $200,000 a year threw his mum out because of his wife?!Did he totally forget how his mum slogged more than half of her lifespan just to see him through medical school? And this is how he repays kindness. Jerk
Did he spend his years of studies in vain? Obtaining knowledege that lacks of such moral values?!A doctor who has so much in knowledge up there but yet owns an empty heart. That's sad I wonder how he's going to tell his son when he gets bigger, perhaps not the truth... But have you ever wonder if one day your child shuts his door upon you, your blow will be much greater than others.
