If you wish to know the real meaning of contentment, or “Being Positive”, sharing and mutual love, then you should visit this old age home taken care by the most respectful and loving, nuns of Mother Teresa Convent. I have been there for more than five times. Our first “Dreams Alive: Be Human” visit was to this old age home only. 5 of us went there and came back with lot of changes in our perception. There are nearly 60 grandpa and grandma, all in the last phase of their life.
The grandma in the above photo is Gomathi.She is a retired teacher. She told me,“John, I’m counting my minutes. I never thought my life will end up like this”. She was also a light music singer and was so fond of kids. She is unmarried and told me that she don’t regret for not getting married or for not having bank balance but she worries for not having some trusted or loving ones to take care of her. She also told me that as long as she was healthy, she was able to manage many things. She told me that the most important treasure in life is health and to take care of that. She said she feel very happy in talking to me.
“After all they need someone to listen to them and we are very happy to be that someone.”
Posted by Sabareeshan,
Saturday 3pm,16-7-2011.
When we stepped inside the convent, more than 15 old mothers were standing outside after their tea break. They all gave a warm welcome to us. I can’t express the feeling whether I was totally afraid or happy or painful. For sometime I sat lonely with them, at that time the cleaning work has been going on. Some grand mothers were sitting outside, some sitting in the verandas and some in the backside; at that time our volunteers started sharing thoughts with them. Felix Anna was talking with an old mother and she replied that her both legs nerves hold, when she hold her leg for some hours she cant straight it just killing time in bed and by prayer she makes herself happy there she replied .Below is one of the grandma i met.
An old grandma named Maria in her 30,s
in her 40,s
now at 70
The same time I met an old mother named ranganagayaki, in her face I found every thing she came near to me and asked me from were are you, about my work, family, whether I married or not and she blessed me I never get this type of blessing because the words come not from mouth its from heart I feel that really. At the mean time John Anna came to me and introduced me an old mother at the next room named lousia mariam. She is from Kerala.The above 3 photos are her only. She was eating banana chips and she told me that the last time she had this was before 10 years.
At that time one old mother near to us sang a song for us. What a beautiful voice she had. She is from Chennai, Our volunteers recorded that & played it to her, at that time her eyes was full of tears then I decided that from our next visits onwards we should not only make them laugh but also we should make them cry because while crying they express all their hard feelings with us and we found that they feel better after that. I like to write more but I can’t express that feeling, when I write all the thing I loose my feeling I can’t do it because I love and like that feeling I want to keep it safe with me.
